Max Pinyugin
Chief Executive Officer at Smope Inc.
Bangkok, Thailand
Summary
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Top SchoolMax Pinyugin is a serial SaaS founder and CEO with over 13 years of leadership experience and roughly 20 years in software engineering, currently leading Smope Inc. from Bangkok. He builds and scales startups in marketing, sales, and document management while still coding across a modern JavaScript/TypeScript stack (Node.js, React, Next.js) and relational/NoSQL databases. Max began as a backend engineer and remains hands-on—his open-source work includes backend contributions to a PHP Facebook Messenger Bot API, adding structured message and attachment handling. He has a track record of launching web and mobile products across diverse industries through agencies he founded and led, and he actively mentors and trains engineering teams. Comfortable in multiple languages (Python, PHP, C#, Dart, Swift), he combines deep practical engineering skills with operational leadership and a habit of continuous framework study to keep product and platform quality high.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Information systems and technologies, Bachelor's degree, Information systems and technologies at Russian State Social University (former Moscow State Social University)
English, Russian
Github Skills (10)
facebook-chat10
php10
api10
facebook-messenger10
apidoc10
messenger10
facebook-messages10
messaging9
object-oriented-programming9
curl8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
pimax/fb-messenger-php
Apr 2016 - Dec 2022
Facebook Messenger Bot PHP API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 38 commits, 8 PRs in 6 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Max primarily contributed to the back-end logic and structure of a PHP-based Facebook Messenger Bot API. Their commits included bug fixes and the addition of new classes like `StructuredMessage`, `MessageButton`, and related components to handle different message types and functionalities. They implemented methods such as `send`, `userProfile`, and attachment classes for advanced messaging capabilities, including image, video, and file attachments. The user also worked on integrating local file uploads and persistent menu settings.
facebook-messenger-botapimessenger-botphp-botphp
pimax/yii-sms
Jan 2013 - Apr 2016
Contributions:11 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 3 years 3 months
apisms-ruyiismssms-api
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