Maxim Akhmedov
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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RockstarMaxim Akhmedov is a Director of Engineering with 14 years of experience building large-scale distributed storage, compute, and MLOps products across BigTech and cloud startups. He blends deep technical authorship—spanning MapReduce control planes, distributed SQL/OLTP integrations (YDB/YTsaurus/CHYT) and low-level performance work—with product leadership and hiring at scale, having grown R&D teams from 0 to 20 and personally run ~200 system design interviews. At Nebius he led TractoAI’s R&D and core data-lake infrastructure powering tens of petabytes and real-time logging at multi-GB/s rates, and now drives agentic search efforts informed by practical experiments with coding agents and vibe-coding. Trained in theoretical CS and a former top competitive programmer, he pairs rigorous algorithmic thinking with a pragmatic startup mindset—shipping production-ready orchestration, fault-tolerant training layers, and integrations for Jax/PyTorch while keeping a close eye on the limits and productivity gains of current AI assistants.
14 years of coding experience
Github Skills (7)
c-language10
dns10
cprogramming-language10
cpp8
distributed-systems8
database5
databases5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ydb-platform/ydb
Feb 2022 - Feb 2022
YDB is an open source Distributed SQL Database that combines high availability and scalability with strong consistency and ACID transactions
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 2 commits, 1 PR in 1 day
Contributions summary:Maxim primarily focused on code modifications within the `contrib/libs/c-ares` directory, suggesting involvement in the DNS resolution component. Changes included updates to the `ares_init.c` file, impacting DNS configuration and timeout settings. The user also modified files related to string formatting and size literals, indicating work on core library functionalities and potentially performance improvements.
dbmsdistributed-sql-databaseydbdatabaseconsistency
zlobober/dotfiles
Jul 2018 - Jan 2024
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 6 months
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