Summary
Max Ignatyev is a product-minded engineering leader and founder with over a decade of hands-on experience building mobile apps, developer tools, and design collaboration platforms. As Founder and former CTO of Sympli, he helped ship DesignOps tooling adopted by companies like Netflix and Visa and pioneered a “version control for designers” workflow. Now a Senior Engineering Manager at Roblox, he combines platform thinking with practical mobile and cross-tool integrations from his iOS/Android background. Max blends startup grit with enterprise delivery, mentoring teams to turn designer-developer friction into scalable, production-ready systems. Based in Rockville, MD, he is active in the local tech community through the DC CTO Club and brings uncommon depth across product, engineering, and developer experience.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
English, Russian