Maxim Bublis is a software engineering manager with 15 years of experience building and operating large-scale, fault-tolerant platforms across cloud and on-prem environments. He began as a full‑stack engineer and evolved into SRE and platform leadership roles at Hopper, Microsoft, Dropbox and Yandex, focusing on observability, SLI/SLO-driven reliability, and high-performance distributed systems. He combines deep systems and backend skills (Python, Go, C/C++, Rust, Scala) with hands-on infrastructure expertise in GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, Spanner and Bigtable to ship resilient, scalable services. Notable contributions include work on Dropbox’s MySQL control plane and performance wins from PGO/LTO optimizations, plus Go open-source work on dbxcli and UUID libraries. He’s effective at translating operational requirements into platform features and enabling teams to move fast without compromising availability. Based in Dublin, he pairs a T-shaped technical breadth with mentorship and on-call experience across global production services.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Russian State Technological University named after K.E. Tsiolkovsky (MATI)
Contributions:122 commits, 31 PRs, 44 pushes in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Maxim implemented the core functionality for generating and handling UUIDs within the Go programming language. Their work included the creation of UUID v4 generation, adding of methods for UUID variant handling and string representation, and implementing UUID v3 and v5 generation. The user also added version 1 implementation based on the timestamp and MAC address. Finally, the user added tests and examples of the functionality created.
A command line client for Dropbox built using the Go SDK
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:20 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 1 month
Contributions summary:Maxim primarily contributed to the development of the command-line interface for Dropbox. Their work included implementing new commands for file manipulation (rm, cp, mv, mkdir), file restoration (revs, restore), and disk usage (du). They also enhanced the user experience by incorporating progress indicators for file uploads and downloads, and by adding support for listing large directories. These additions improved the CLI's functionality and usability.
dropboxgolanggolang-applicationsdkdropbox-api
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Maxim Bublis - Software Engineering Manager at Hopper