Maxim Kalaev
Software Engineer at Google
Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolMaxim Kalaev is a seasoned software engineer with 17 years of experience, currently working at Google and specializing in real-time embedded systems, drivers, and systems architecture. He brings deep expertise across OS internals, multi-processor platforms, network protocols, security, cryptography and DRM, with hands-on experience on TI C64xx DSPs, DSB/bios and Linux. A proven team leader and architect, he writes clear requirements and use cases and moves complex hardware-software projects from design to production. Maxim is also an active open-source contributor—his reliability and debugging improvements to the widely used ninja build system demonstrate a knack for fixing low-level correctness and tooling gaps. Combining an MSc in Computational Biology from Tel Aviv University with a Technion CS degree, he blends rigorous academic training with pragmatic engineering of constrained, safety- and security-sensitive systems.
16 years of coding experience
B.A., Computer Science, B.A., Computer Science at Technion - Israel Institute of TechnologyMSc, Computer Science, computational biology, MSc, Computer Science, computational biology at Tel Aviv University
Github Skills (18)
ninja10
dependency-management10
c-language10
build-system10
compiler-design10
compiler-compiler10
fileio10
file-processing10
file-handling10
compiler10
error-handling10
file-access10
cprogramming-language10
computer-engineering9
debug8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ninja-build/ninja
Jun 2013 - May 2014
a small build system with a focus on speed
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 36 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Maxim primarily contributed to the `ninja-build/ninja` project by enhancing the build system's reliability and functionality. Their work involved adding error checking to file operations within the dependency logging system, ensuring data integrity. They introduced a tool to dump entries from the deps log, which facilitates debugging and dependency analysis. Furthermore, the user addressed potential record overflow issues and fixed bugs related to restat rules and missing dependencies within the build process.
speedcmakebuild-systemninjabuild-tool
maximuska/ninja
Jun 2013 - May 2014
a small build system with a focus on speed
Contributions:34 commits in 10 months
speedbuild-systembuild-tool
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