Maxim Rydkin
Team Lead Backend Developer at Sputnik8.com
Moscow, Moscow, Russia
Summary
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Top SchoolMaxim Rydkin is a Team Lead Backend Developer with 12 years of experience specializing in Ruby and Ruby on Rails, currently leading backend work and growth initiatives at Sputnik8. He brings a blend of hands-on engineering, process optimization and data-driven decision making—leveraging metrics, PostgreSQL tuning and Sidekiq/Unicorn capacity planning to improve reliability and performance. As a serial co-founder and technical lead, he has migrated monoliths, implemented multitenancy, sped up CI and deployments, and built reporting and automation tools that reduced operational overhead. Comfortable working remotely and autonomously, he also improves developer experience through tooling, observability (Sentry, Coverband) and pragmatic test engineering. Trained as a scientist in heat physics, he applies an analytical mindset to software problems, often preferring simpler analytical models over complex numerical solutions.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Postgraduate Study, Heat Physics, Postgraduate Study, Heat Physics at Bauman Moscow State Technical University
Russian, English
Github Skills (23)
gitlab-ce10
rails10
ruby10
gitlab10
turbolinks9
server-side-rendering8
capistrano8
rubygems7
cableready7
websocket7
turbo7
ruby-on-rails6
hotwire6
reactive6
linter5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
I-de-ya/capistrano-rdws
Mar 2014 - Jan 2018
Contributions:85 commits, 7 pushes, 1 tag in 3 years 10 months
inner-whisper/nmax
Jan 2020 - Feb 2023
Contributions:24 PRs, 78 pushes, 19 branches in 3 years 1 month
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