Maxim Mai
Software Engineer at Affiniti
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolMaxim Mai is a software engineer with 14 years of experience designing and deploying scalable MVC applications and backend platforms, currently building industry-tailored payment and banking solutions at Affiniti. He has held senior engineering roles at Wealthsimple and Paymentus and contributed to database and platform innovation at IBM, blending hands-on systems work with open source advocacy. As co-founder of MongoHouse he scaled a consumer-facing product to 100k+ users and millions of monthly pageviews, gaining practical startup and product-growth experience despite the venture’s later legal challenges. His technical strengths span Node.js frameworks, SQL and NoSQL databases, compiler validation, performance benchmarking, and data mining, with a track record of shipping high-throughput systems. Based in Toronto, he combines enterprise-grade discipline with entrepreneurial grit and a history of cross-stack problem solving. Active on GitHub and Stack Overflow, he frequently bridges production engineering and open-source ecosystems.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at University of Toronto
English
Stackoverflow
145reputation
23kreached
6answers
6questions
Github Skills (98)
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linux9
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amazon-dynamodb9
database9
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
maximslmai/openbook
Aug 2011 - Jan 2012
Contributions:20 commits in 5 months
maximslmai/openbook2.0
Nov 2012 - Feb 2016
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes in 3 years 3 months
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