Maksim Prokopyev

me@maxprokopiev.com
github.com/maxprokopiev

Staff/Senior Software Engineer

17 years building and operating SaaS platforms, billing systems, and cloud infrastructure.

Work Experience


Berlin, Germany
May 2022 - present
GitHub
Senior Software Engineer / Tech Lead

Worked across Billing, Performance Engineering, Ruby Architecture, and Incident Command.

Led several projects, mentored engineers.

Currently working on GitHub's payments and metered billing infrastructure.

Berlin, Germany
Aug 2020 - Apr 2022
Adjust GmbH
Staff Software Engineer

Led the migration from bare-metal to AWS EKS, improving deployment reliability and enabling scalable CI/CD across the engineering organization.

Worked on new features and supported existing codebases written in Ruby and Elixir.

Berlin, Germany
Mar 2017 - Jul 2020
Springer Nature
Senior Software Engineer

Worked on a project about gathering various metrics for books and articles published by the company.

Participated in the migration of the legacy Rails based application to Scala.

Germany / Russia
Nov 2008 - Feb 2017
Earlier experience
Senior Software Engineer / Tech Lead

Built and operated production backend systems, data pipelines, and large-scale web applications across fintech and publishing.

Progressed from software engineer to senior/lead roles.

Technical skills


Education


Kazan, Russia
Sep 2006 - Jun 2011
Kazan Federal University
MSc-equivalent (Specialist Diploma) in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science

Thesis: Statistical properties of cryptographic primitives.

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