Max Markov is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building large-scale, ML-driven search and recommendation systems across startups and tech giants. He has led teams at Amazon (Alexa, Twitch, Music) delivering real-time, globally scalable search and query-understanding solutions, and at early-stage startups where he built recommendation engines, search platforms and pricing/ promotions infrastructure. Now at Mapbox after a recent staff engineering role at Pepper, he combines hands-on backend and DevOps skills—evident from contributions to pygraphviz’s build and CI improvements—with a track record of founding engineering orgs and shipping production ML rankers. Based in Frisco, Texas, he pairs product-focused architecture with operational rigor and a knack for turning research-grade ML into reliable, low-latency services for millions of users.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Lviv Polytechnic National University
Bachelor of Arts - BA Business Administration Management and Operations, Bachelor of Arts - BA Business Administration Management and Operations at Ternopil Academy of National Economy
Python interface to Graphviz graph drawing package
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:37 commits, 4 PRs, 18 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Max's contributions primarily involved improving the build and deployment process for the PyGraphviz project, transitioning from distutils to setuptools and adding Travis CI support. They also addressed Python 3 compatibility issues and converted binary output to strings. Furthermore, the user updated the code to locate the graphviz library in various locations and added features to specify include and library paths.
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