Maxim Zhurovich
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Uber
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolMaxim Zhurovich is a Senior Staff Software Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 11 years of experience building large-scale, compliance-sensitive financial systems and leading engineering teams through complex cloud migrations. He has repeatedly owned end-to-end platform visions—most recently driving reconciliation platform strategy at Block and scaling teams and systems at Cash App and Uber—delivering multimillion-dollar impact through improved observability and early issue remediation. A hands-on architect by training, Maxim built high-performance transactional event-log systems and a SQL-based reconciliation engine that replaced costly on-prem infrastructure, cutting over $1M/year in maintenance. His background blends deep academic rigor (Ph.D. level physics training) with entrepreneurial product delivery dating back to founding and technical leadership roles, which helps him translate research-grade thinking into production reliability. Colleagues rely on him to tame distributed data complexity, mentor engineers, and convert messy financial workflows into auditable, scalable pipelines.
11 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Laser Physics, Ph.D., Laser Physics at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT)
English, Russian
Stackoverflow
75reputation
2kreached
2answers
3questions
Github Skills (33)
realtime10
machine-learning10
rest-api10
cpp10
optimization10
jruby-openssl9
jruby8
ssl7
cryptography7
firefox6
openssl6
css6
jquery6
javascript6
data-persistence5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mzhurovich/Current
Feb 2015 - Apr 2024
Our own core pieces to reuse.
Contributions:454 pushes, 96 branches, 34 comments in 9 years 2 months
reusepieces
mzhurovich/CTFO_BE
Jun 2015 - Aug 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 52 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 2 months
ctfbackend
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