Max Zanko
Sr. Engineering Manager at Databricks
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolMax Zanko is a senior engineering manager with 9 years in leadership roles and two decades of hands-on software engineering experience, currently shaping AI and data infrastructure at Databricks and Meta from San Jose. He has repeatedly built and scaled engineering organizations of 50+ engineers and led multi-year projects across e-commerce, digital marketing, communications, manufacturing and fintech. Deep expertise in large-scale data platforms, distributed systems, and AI/ML pipelines underpins his track record of delivering analytics, search, and production ML observability solutions. At Facebook/Meta he focused on AI infrastructure for Ads, Feed, Reels and Messaging, and previously led core data and indexing platforms at BloomReach and analytics work at Google. He combines production reliability responsibilities—capacity planning, HA, cloud ops—with strong hiring and culture-building instincts. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic builder who turns complex cross-functional problems into scalable, operational systems.
9 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Science, Software Engineering at Belarusian National Technical University
English, Russian
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Github Skills (4)
amazon-web-services10
anki5
obsidian4
markdown3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
max-zanko/flashcards-obsidian
Aug 2023 - Nov 2024
🎴 An Anki plugin for Obsidian.md
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
max-zanko/og-aws
Oct 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:14 pushes in 16 days
amazonweb-servicespracticalamazon-web-servicesaws
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