Stas Maksimov
Senior Software Engineer at Slack
Dublin, Ireland
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SeniorStas Maksimov is a Senior Software Engineer based in Dublin with over two decades of professional experience and a 12-year track record in senior engineering roles at leading cloud and SaaS companies. He currently operates and optimizes the world's largest Vitess deployment at Slack, demonstrating deep expertise in large-scale distributed databases and production reliability. Previously he advanced cloud management and multi-cloud Java abstractions at Dell and helped build SaaS offerings at IBM and HubSpot, showing a consistent focus on cloud-native infrastructure and platform engineering. Comfortable in both hands-on implementation and technical leadership, he has repeatedly moved between startups, enterprise projects, and contract engagements to deliver robust systems. An understated strength is his long-term commitment to evolving cloud ecosystems—bridging older enterprise stacks and modern distributed systems—bringing practical institutional knowledge to complex operational challenges.
12 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
English, Russian
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Github Skills (118)
menu10
macos-big-sur10
eclipse10
backend10
clustering10
vultr10
mws10
scale10
sql10
database10
kubernetes10
mysql10
vitess10
amazon10
macbook-pro10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
dasein-cloud/dasein-cloud-joyent
Jul 2015 - Mar 2021
Contributions:7 PRs, 1 comment in 5 years 9 months
greese/dasein-cloud-aws
Jan 2014 - Jun 2015
Dasein Cloud implementation for Amazon Web Services and clouds and platforms that support the AWS APIs. For more information, see the Dasein Cloud home page at https://github.com/greese/dasein-cloud.
Contributions:255 commits, 27 PRs, 3 comments in 1 year 5 months
vultrcost-optimizationamazonplatformsweb-services
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