Maxym Kharchenko
Principal Database Engineer
Issaquah, Washington, United States
Summary
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SeniorMaxym Kharchenko is a Principal Database Engineer with over a decade of experience designing, tuning, and operating large-scale database systems across Amazon and AWS. He has progressed through senior engineering and administration roles at Amazon since 2011, bringing deep operational knowledge of production databases and a strong Python development background. Based in Issaquah, Washington, Maxym combines hands-on troubleshooting with architectural leadership, influencing database reliability and performance at cloud scale. His long tenure across related roles—spanning hands-on DBA team leadership to principal-level engineering—reflects a rare blend of legacy system understanding and modern cloud-native practices. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, auditable solutions that balance performance, cost, and operational simplicity.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
English, Russian, Ukrainian
Github Skills (5)
benchmark4
tpc4
benchmarking3
database3
sql2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
maxymkharchenko/c16lv_R_lab
Feb 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:14 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
gluent/gluent-eng
Jun 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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