Summary
Max Pikhteryev is a Lead Software Engineer based in Mountain View with 13 years of hands-on experience building reliable systems across startups and large tech firms. He has progressed from hardware validation and release engineering roles at Facebook to senior and leadership engineering positions, blending low-level systems insight with modern software delivery practices. At ERF.io he leads engineering efforts while previously contributing to product and supply-chain engineering at Cut+Dry, Science, and zulily—showing a pattern of driving cross-functional, production-grade solutions. Trained in Nanotechnology Engineering at the University of Waterloo, he brings an unusual hardware-to-software perspective that helps bridge firmware, testing, and cloud-native development. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic automation, testability, and production readiness rather than theoretical designs alone.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Sir John A. Macdonald
Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Nanotechnology Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Nanotechnology Engineering at University of Waterloo
English, Russian, French