Summary
Max Kuznetsov is a Senior Systems Engineer based in London with 13 years of software engineering experience and a 7-year focus on backend development across Python, Go, Ruby, Java and low-level C. He has driven payment and finance integrations at Stripe and Checkout.com, led end-to-end backend delivery for merchant dashboards, and now works on infrastructure-scale systems at Cloudflare. Equally comfortable in user-facing product work and deep infrastructure, he combines practical distributed-systems engineering with academic experience in compiler construction and teaching. Max frequently dives a few abstraction layers down to understand performance and correctness trade-offs, a habit reflected in early contributions to GCC AVX-512 support during his Intel internship. His toolkit spans databases (Postgres, MongoDB, SQLite), orchestration and infra-as-code (Docker, Terraform), and RPCs (gRPC/Protobuf), enabling reliable, observable systems at scale.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
MSc by Research Computer Science, MSc by Research Computer Science at University of Hertfordshire
Bachelor’s Degree Applied Mathematics and Physics, Bachelor’s Degree Applied Mathematics and Physics at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT)
English, Russian