Maximย Samsonov
St Petersburg, St Petersburg City, Russia
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Top SchoolMaxim Samsonov is an open source software architect and evangelist with over 35 years of technical and executive experience, currently advancing multiple OSS projects from secure OpenPGP libraries to executable packagers. He has led engineering, operations and product alignment as CTO and managing director across telecoms and software companies, consistently bridging strategy, budgets, and cross-functional delivery. A hands-on engineer as well as leader, he has contributed CI/build automation to high-profile projects like spaCy, showing a focus on reliable build/test pipelines across platforms. Based in St. Petersburg, he combines academic roots in applied mathematics with practical expertise in C++ and DevOps to deliver production-grade tooling. Colleagues know him for translating complex standards (RFC4880, RFC2692) into usable libraries and for sustaining long-lived open source ecosystems.
10 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Applied Mathematics, 5 (Highest honours), MS, Applied Mathematics, 5 (Highest honours) at St. Petersburg State Technical Univercity
English
Stackoverflow
314reputation
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9answers
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Github Skills (17)
python10
windows10
cicd10
build-automation10
testing9
cython9
fabric7
redmine6
homebrew6
posix6
debian6
ruby6
glog6
fread6
nlp5
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
explosion/spaCy
Oct 2015 - Oct 2015
๐ซ Industrial-strength Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Python
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer & DevOps Engineer
Automation Engineer & DevOps EngineerContributions:40 commits, 5 PRs, 34 comments in 12 days
Contributions summary:Maxim contributed to the build and testing infrastructure of the project, working on build automation and testing configurations. They made modifications to the build scripts for different Python versions, including adjustments for 32 and 64-bit architectures on Windows. The user also made several changes to the Appveyor build configuration, demonstrating a focus on continuous integration and automated testing.
natural-language-processingpythondata-sciencemachine-learningcython
claricle/libemf2svg
Jun 2021 - Apr 2022
Microsoft (MS) EMF to SVG conversion library
Contributions:9 releases, 2 reviews, 107 commits in 10 months
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