Andrey Maksimov

Andrey Maksimov has a diverse work experience spanning over several companies. Andrey started their career at Whirix in 2005 as a Web Developer, where they worked with Macromedia Flash, ActionScript 2, PHP4, and Smarty. Andrey then moved on to Systema Gorod in 2005-2006 as a PL/SQL Application Developer, working on Oracle PL/SQL backend, PHP5 frontend, billing, transactions, and stored procedures.

In 2006-2008, Andrey worked at Novotelecom as the Head of the web-development department, managing a team of 7-9 employees and handling web-site development. Their skills during this role included PHP 5, MySQL, PostgreSQL, memcache, and high load management.

Andrey then joined BIT Studios in 2008-2009 as a Sr. Web Developer, before joining Percona in 2009, where they have held various roles. At Percona, they started as the Lead of the Internal Tools Team, responsible for task and distributed team management, hiring, boosting team professionalism, and developing the architecture of internal systems. Andrey also converted email conversations and phone calls into technical tasks. During this role, they achieved significant milestones such as developing and implementing the company billing system from scratch, improving the stability of internal applications, and regaining the company's trust in its internal systems. Their key skills during this role included System Integrations, PHP 5.*, MySQL/Percona Server, AJAX, various APIs, message queries, RESTful interfaces, and logging.

Andrey's most recent role at Percona is Manager, Automation Engineering, which they started in July 2021. The details of this role are not provided, as it is an ongoing position.

Andrey Maksimov attended Altay State University from 1993 to 1999, where they earned a Specialist, BS degree in IT with a focus on Applied Mathematics.