Summary
Vladimir Makushkin is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building high-performance, distributed systems across companies from startups to hyperscale platforms. He currently develops disaggregated, exabyte-scale warm storage at Meta and previously led backend, database and scalability work at Amazon and CloudLock, plus search and PKI engineering roles earlier in his career. His background blends deep systems knowledge—distributed storage, databases, and information retrieval—with rapid prototyping and front-end JavaScript fluency. Based in Bellevue, WA, he’s comfortable moving between low-level infrastructure and user-facing code, and has a track record of optimizing storage and search for real-world scale. An uncommon thread in his career is combining search quality tuning with large-scale data pipeline development, giving him a pragmatic edge when turning research ideas into production systems.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Information Technology, Bachelor's degree, Information Technology at Ural State Technical University