Summary
Maxim Orlov is a founder and seasoned Node.js engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-first backends and developer-focused tools from Amsterdam. He has led end-to-end backend projects—designing RESTful APIs, scaling strategies and full infrastructure—across startups and nonprofit settings, including engineering roles at Bitrefill and a CTO stint at It's My Styl. Passionate about helping other developers ship robust applications, he teaches and ships practical Node.js solutions while still writing production-grade systems. His background in economics combined with a Free Code Camp full‑stack certificate gives him a pragmatic, product-minded approach to technical decisions and developer education. Notably, he moved teams off paper processes to automated, monitored deployments early in his career, showing a knack for operationalizing software quickly.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate in Full Stack Web Development, Computer Software Engineering, Certificate in Full Stack Web Development, Computer Software Engineering at Free Code Camp
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Economics and Business, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Economics and Business at Erasmus University Rotterdam
English, Dutch, Romanian, Spanish, Russian