Summary
Max Kachinkin is an Android Tech Lead with over 15 years of experience delivering high-performance mobile apps and leading teams that scale to millions of users. He combines deep Kotlin/Java and Android Framework expertise with modern engineering practices—CI/CD, TDD, Trunk-Based Development—and has a track record of cutting lead times, stabilizing releases, and boosting feature delivery via migrations to MVI and Jetpack Compose. At Dodo Brands he led initiatives that reduced startup time by 75%, raised test coverage from 0 to 40%, and recovered >1% of payment revenue through reliability tooling. Beyond hands-on engineering he cultivates engineering culture as a mentor, conference speaker, program director, and course lead, and recently focuses on integrating AI-driven tooling and agentic architectures (MCP, RAG) to accelerate development. An early adopter of Server-Driven UI and audio fingerprinting solutions, he brings a pragmatic blend of systems thinking and creative problem solving—he also composes music in his spare time.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computers, complexes, systems and networks, Master's degree, Computers, complexes, systems and networks at National Research Nuclear University (former Moscow Engineering Physics Institute)
Русский, Английский