Max Shegai
Production Engineer at Meta
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMax Shegai is a Production Engineer at Meta with 11 years of experience building high-performance, secure distributed systems and storage. He has deep expertise in cybersecurity, HPC, bioinformatics and Golang, and previously architected a highly available, horizontally scalable blob storage at Mail.Ru. His background blends rigorous academic training—BSc/MSc and PhD work at Lomonosov MSU—with hands-on systems development, including a Go-based multiboot bootloader contribution during a Google internship. Max teaches and has designed courses on parallel and distributed computing, reflecting a talent for translating complex theory into production-ready systems. Based in the UK, he brings a research mindset to infrastructure reliability and performance optimization, often tackling low-level boot and storage challenges that few production engineers encounter.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Lomonosov Moscow State University
English, Russian
Github Skills (68)
programming-language10
linux-distribution10
system10
embedded10
store-management10
linux10
keychain10
golang10
userland10
certificate-transparency10
busybox10
kernel10
go10
initramfs10
x509certificates9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
n-canter/ddsp
Sep 2018 - Jan 2019
DDSP (TRHiOD) course (Fall 2018), groups 423, 623
Contributions:23 PRs, 10 pushes, 5 branches in 4 months
ddspgroupsfall
n-canter/u-root
Aug 2018 - Feb 2019
A fully Go userland! u-root can create a root file system (initramfs) containing a busybox-like set of tools written in Go.
Contributions:74 pushes, 13 branches in 5 months
golanglinuxinitramfsbusyboxuserland
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