Maxim Krizhanovsky
Engineering Manager at Raylo
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMaxim Krizhanovsky is an engineering manager and seasoned full-stack developer with 15 years of experience delivering reliable web platforms and developer tooling, currently leading engineering at Raylo from Stony Stratford, UK. He is a pragmatic Ruby specialist who has also shipped production systems in PHP, Scala, Elixir, C++, Perl and Python, and has repeatedly driven improvements in code quality and developer productivity. A hands-on leader, he progressed from individual contributor roles to managing teams and processes—introducing multi-license practices, in-house training, and owning CMS/CRM and regulatory deliveries. Maxim is an active contributor to the high-profile RuboCop project, where his work on rubocop and rubocop-rspec reduced false positives and added configuration and cops that improve maintainability across the Ruby ecosystem. Colleagues describe him as a detail-oriented engineer who pairs deep technical refactors with practical QA and automation to keep teams shipping.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Physics, Physics at National High School of Math and Science
English, Bulgarian, Russian
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Github Skills (37)
rubocop10
static-code-analysis10
static-analysis10
mysql10
rspec10
ruby10
php10
lint10
linting10
githubactions9
apache9
bower9
testing9
transaction9
javascript9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
rubocop/rubocop-rspec
Mar 2017 - Jan 2023
Code style checking for RSpec files.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:5 releases, 303 reviews, 172 commits in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Maxim primarily contributed to improving code quality and maintainability within the `rubocop-rspec` repository. They implemented and enhanced test cases, addressing various code style issues and ensuring the correct behavior of the RuboCop rules. Their work includes fixing false positives, adding new cops for code style checks, and improving existing ones related to RSpec. The user also refactored code examples and ensured the correct application of specific configurations.
code-stylelintrailstestingruby
rubocop/rubocop
Apr 2018 - Jun 2022
A Ruby static code analyzer and formatter, based on the community Ruby style guide.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer / Code Maintainer
Back-end Developer / Code MaintainerContributions:13 reviews, 31 commits, 39 PRs in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Maxim primarily contributed to the Ruby code analysis and formatting tool, RuboCop. Their work focused on bug fixes, including addressing issues with code blocks and safe navigation. They also added configuration options to existing cops, like the `TrailingWhitespace` cop and the `Style/MethodCallWithoutArgsParentheses` cop. Furthermore, the user refactored existing code to improve readability and maintainability.
linterstyle-guidecode-formattercode-analyzerruby
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