Maxim Ivanov
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Paxos
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMaxim Ivanov is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 11 years of experience building resilient, production-grade systems and APIs, currently driving reliability at Paxos in New York. He combines a strong electrical engineering foundation from The Cooper Union with hands-on software experience across backend, frontend and mobile web from roles at The Huffington Post and earlier agencies. Maxim has a pragmatic SRE mindset—automating operations, hardening services, and shipping reliable tooling that bridges developer and ops needs. He is also an active open-source contributor, having enhanced the widely used BBC Wraith screenshot-comparison tool by adding Selenium/Chromedriver support, full-page captures and unit tests. Colleagues know him for tackling cross-stack problems and for bringing test-driven refactors to legacy systems to reduce operational toil.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electrical Engineering at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
Bulgarian, Spanish
Github Skills (8)
javascript10
selenium-ide10
selenium10
chromeless10
headless-browser10
chrome-webdriver10
ruby9
testing8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
bbc/wraith
Sep 2017 - Oct 2017
Wraith — A responsive screenshot comparison tool
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 9 PRs, 19 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Maxim primarily contributed to the development of Wraith, a screenshot comparison tool, by adding support for Selenium/Chromedriver. This involved implementing features for full-page screenshots, element-selector screenshots, and before-capture JavaScript execution, enhancing the tool's capabilities. The user refactored the code to reuse the Selenium driver and added unit tests. They also updated the tool's version and configuration.
reactscreenshotcomparisonscreenshot-comparisoncomparison-tool
shmargum/vim-sass-colors
Apr 2017 - Apr 2020
sass/scss/less/css color literal and color variable highlighting (works with imports)
Contributions:20 releases, 56 commits, 12 PRs in 3 years
sasscsscss-colorliteralless-css
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