Summary
Max 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
9 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 Technology
Master's degree Computer Science and Computer Facilities, Master's degree Computer Science and Computer Facilities at Tomsk Polytechnic University
Russian, English, German