Summary
Maxim Zakharenkov is a Principal Member of Technical Staff with over 15 years of experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems for companies like Oracle and Amazon. He combines deep system design and Java/microservices expertise with hands-on cloud architecture across OCI and AWS, having led the Management Appliance for Oracle Cloud VMware Solution spanning 150+ regions. Known for improving reliability and incident response, he bridges architecture, delivery, and team growth while mentoring engineers and driving observability and CI/CD improvements. Maxim’s background includes impactful performance tuning (doubling Cassandra cluster efficiency) and building high-throughput, user-facing distributed services for platforms with 100M+ users. Now based in Latvia, he’s focused on technical leadership roles that marry scalable infrastructure, fintech/SaaS domains, and developer enablement.
7 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer