Maxim Murygin

Engaged by leadership to stabilize a highly critical legacy system (distributed jobs scheduling platform), focusing on toil reduction and stability improvement, while simultaneously leading the design and architectural vision for the new Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) platform.

• Architected and spearheaded the development of the company's first Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) platform on Kubernetes, directly unblocking a top-priority company initiative: the buildout of the LLM agents platform
• Prevented major waste of engineering resources by challenging the proposed multi-component solution for distributed jobs triggering, advocating for a no-code architecture that improved overall design
• Led initiative to reduce operational toil and enhance platform stability through automation tools, eliminating significant recurring manual work
• Helped discover and mitigate one of the biggest security breaches in platform history; conducted postmortem and drove cross-functional improvements for company-wide security incident handling

Led the delivery and reliability engineering for a high-scale Private Cloud Platform (OpenStack), establishing a secure and resilient foundation.

• Unblocked migration of key booking services to Private Cloud by being constantly in touch with stakeholders, understanding their needs, delivering requirements to the team and contributing to the solution both by design and coding
• Executed a high-impact, cross-functional initiative (across 5 teams) to optimize CPU pinning and platform configurations, resulting in a quantifiable 10% increase in performance for critical workload
• Played a major role in architecture decisions, including leading the design for the 'Multi regional' resilience model to ensure all services could withstand cloud failures
• Championed a shift to SLO-based alerting and mercilessly eliminated false positives, resulting in a quantifiable reduction in out-of-hours alert volume
• Acted as a principal technical consultant for Engineering/Product Leadership, quickly diagnosing and delivering complex, time-sensitive solutions that prevented critical path blockers for major product initiatives

SRE in Core Infrastructure. Building from scratch and maintaining an integration layer between OpenStack-based Private Cloud and internal services.

• Designed and took a major role in implementation of internal platform which consists of 8000+ VMs and provides a working environment for 2000+ developers
• Guided the adoption of IaC with Terraform, developed many internal terraform modules and helped AWS team to setup and use private terraform registry
• Drove a high-risk, foundational architectural work to align VM and Baremetal lifecycle, a complex change that was deployed with zero service degradation or lost bookings
• In collaboration with Risk and Compliance built a comprehensive list of controls to certify the environment as SoX compliant. Ensured platform compliance by successfully leading first two audit sessions with auditors
• Onboarded 6 new team members and promoted by example pair programming

Team Lead managing a cross-functional team while handling SRE responsibilities. Led team of 8 engineers, managed stakeholder relationships, and drove technical decisions. Maintained and enhanced web services for data processing and generating training sets for Machine Learning tasks.

• Setup a solid architecture which survived 100x scale over the next 5 years
• Led successful migration from monolith to microservices architecture
• Moved operations from manual to Infrastructure as Code with terraform
• Grew team from 6 to 9 engineers

As the Lead Developer of the outsourced team, I was responsible for building backend architecture and optimizing critical requests.

• Implemented real-time monitoring of production performance
• Gathered and optimized critical production requests
• Implemented stress tests to prevent performance degradation

I was responsible for the backend development of the enterprise project management system.

• Made significant refactoring to make the system testable
• Demonstrated the value of testing and proper test writing techniques to other developers, rapidly increasing test coverage to nearly 90%

Developed bacterial population monitoring system by building asymptotic solutions of the Fisher-Kolmogorov equation followed by modeling in MatLab.