Maxim Babenko is a seasoned infrastructure leader and researcher who has led the development of YTsaurus, a next-generation distributed storage and processing platform at Yandex capable of scaling to tens of thousands of nodes and exabytes of data. With a PhD in mathematics and a strong background in algorithms and combinatorial optimization, he blends rigorous academic thinking with pragmatic engineering, having shipped core systems used daily by hundreds of engineers and critical services like Yandex advertising. He previously implemented the initial core of JetBrains’ dotPeek decompiler and maintains a long-standing commitment to education as a lecturer and vice-principal at Yandex School of Data Analysis and as an associate professor. A competitive programmer with IOI and ICPC medals, he brings competitive problem-solving instincts to large-scale distributed system design and recently open-sourced the platform he built, extending its impact beyond Yandex.
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