Summary
Max Zakharzhevskiy is a Senior Principal Software Engineer based in Sunnyvale with over two decades of hands-on experience and eight years in his current senior roles building secure enterprise password and authentication systems. He has led architecture and implementation of Password Manager products across C++ and web stacks, created browser extensions and cloud integrations for MFA, and recently develops Node.js CLI tools, dashboards, and trace viewers to speed triage and support at HID Global. Max combines deep systems-level expertise (C/C++) with modern web and API work (REST, GraphQL, Node.js) and a knack for investigative tooling that surfaces hard-to-find issues. An early innovator in multimedia UIs, he also maintains a nostalgia-themed demo showcasing his 90s-era work, reflecting both longevity and a practical curiosity for novel interfaces.
8 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Kyiv Polytechnic Institute (KPI)
English, Russian, Ukrainian