--- title: "Maxim Shmakov — CV" description: "CV of Maxim Shmakov, AI product engineer in Munich: CTO at a stealth startup, Neocom.ai, Iterative.ai (DVC Studio) and high-load Yandex.Market; M.Sc. LUT and HSE." url: "https://mvshmakov.dev/cv/" --- # Maxim Shmakov AI product engineer · Munich, Germany - Email: - Website: - LinkedIn: - GitHub: - PDF: ## Summary Engineer and technical lead who builds AI products end to end. CTO at a stealth startup and senior engineer on AI guided selling at Neocom.ai. Before that, four years on DVC Studio, the MLOps platform of Iterative.ai, and two years at Yandex on Yandex.Market, a high-load e-commerce marketplace. ## Experience ### Chief Technology Officer, Stealth startup Aug 2026 – present · Munich · hybrid - Took the product from zero to shipped: technical strategy, architecture and project leadership. - Hands-on full-stack development and DevOps. - Beyond engineering: customer work and fundraising. ### Senior Software Engineer, [Neocom.ai](https://neocom.ai) May 2024 – present · Munich - Several AI guided selling products that bring personal shopping advice to e-commerce. ### Senior Software Engineer, Iterative.ai Jun 2020 – Apr 2024 · Remote - Product development across DVC Studio, the MLOps SaaS: projects table, model registry, landing page, private projects, security issues. - DRI for a cross-product feature: live machine learning metrics, tracked end to end from the CLI and scripts to the SaaS. - Interviewed frontend engineers for DVC Studio and supported their onboarding. - Team processes: infrastructure duty, retrospectives, issue grooming. - Frontend developer experience: linters and formatters, a testing culture and its tools, architecture, conventions. ### Software Engineer, Yandex.Market Jul 2018 – Jun 2020 · Moscow - Migrated the frontend of a high-load marketplace from the legacy i-bem/yate stack to React, Redux and Flow. - Shipped production features that won their A/B tests, on both the legacy and the modern stack. - Cut the bundle size of an isomorphic app by replacing Bluebird with native promise helpers. - Kept the service available through incidents with Graphite, Grafana, ClickHouse and GNU coreutils. - Maintained the Python CI pipelines as requirements changed. ### Software Engineer, Netcracker Oct 2017 – Apr 2018 · Moscow - Built an Angular component library for internal services, with 100% unit-test coverage (Karma, Jasmine). - Connected it with the existing Ext JS (Sencha) components, so internal UIs were built one way. - Wrote its documentation site with usage examples, and helped migrate services onto it. ## Education ### M.Sc. Software Engineering, double degree, LUT University (Finland) & HSE University (Moscow) 2019 – 2021. LUT: Software Engineering and Digital Transformation. HSE: System and Software Engineering. ### B.Sc. Information Technology, HSE University (Moscow) 2015 – 2019. Summa cum laude. ## Writing ### [Real-time visualization of Computer Vision model training with DVC and Iterative Studio](https://mvshmakov.dev/writing/dvclive-metrics-studio/) 2023. First published on the DVC blog. With Alex Kim and David de la Iglesia. ## Skills - Leadership: Technical strategy, software architecture, project leadership, hiring and onboarding - Engineering: TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js, GraphQL, Python, CI/CD, testing - ML tooling: DVC, DVCLive, experiment tracking, model registry - Languages: English (full professional, IELTS Academic C1), Russian (native) - Certifications: Triplebyte Certified Front End Engineer, 2020; IEEE Associate Software Developer (IEEE Computer Society), 2019