Max Sannikov
Senior Software Engineer at Zuplo
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMax Sannikov is a software engineer with 12 years’ experience designing high-throughput, resilient backend systems and cloud-native infrastructure. He has driven measurable impact at startups—helping Skillr secure a $7M Series A by building its platform foundation—and at Happening where he improved Kafka throughput 100x and cut service startup times from hours to under a minute. His background includes working on Borg at Google, bringing deep operational experience in large-scale cluster management to modern Kubernetes and DevOps practices. Based in London, he excels at translating business needs into auditable, disaster-resilient architectures and frequently optimizes both performance and cost. Notably, he blends academic rigor in computer science and applied mathematics with hands-on delivery across Node.js/TypeScript, PostgreSQL, containerization and CI/CD.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science, Master's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science at Skolkovo Institute of Science and TechnologyMaster's degree, Computer Science and Computer Facilities, Master's degree, Computer Science and Computer Facilities at Tomsk Polytechnic University
Russian, English
Github Skills (39)
multiplayer9
go8
pkg8
multiplayer-game8
animated8
snap8
golang8
scrollview7
kubernetes7
access-control7
deb7
muon7
squirrel7
linux7
nsis7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
msannikov/bets-release
Jul 2018 - Feb 2021
Contributions:1 release, 48 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
msannikov/image-recognition
Jan 2014 - Mar 2015
Contributions:9 commits, 1 push in 1 year 1 month
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