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.
14 years of coding experience