Max Khizhinsky is an experienced C++ engineer with 11+ years designing and building high-performance, cross-platform distributed systems and network stacks, currently working in the Netherlands. He has led C++ teams at SEMRush and VAS Experts and delivered production-grade solutions handling up to 200Gbps using DPDK and low-level Linux optimization. Max specializes in lock-free data structures, multithreading patterns and modern C++ (C++11) techniques, and contributes to an open-source libcds project improving concurrent data structures, tests and cross-compiler compatibility. His background spans telecommunications, DPI/BRAS, online charging and real-time voice processing, giving him deep expertise in low-latency, high-throughput systems. Notably, he pairs hands-on implementation work with rigorous attention to portability and code quality across platforms.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Research engineer Applied mathematics and computer science, Research engineer Applied mathematics and computer science at Ленинградский Электро-Технический институт (ЛЭТИ) им. Ульянова (Ленина)
Contributions:6 releases, 1768 commits, 57 PRs in 7 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Max primarily contributed to the implementation and documentation of a C++ library for concurrent data structures. Their work involved improvements to existing components, documentation enhancements, and the migration of unit tests to the gtest framework. They also fixed warnings and compiler-specific issues, indicating a focus on code quality and compatibility across different platforms.
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