Igor Maximchuk

Software Engineer

Redmond, Washington, United States17 yrs 3 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in distributed systems and cloud security.
Proven track record in optimizing database engine performance.
Strong background in software security and compliance.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Infrastructure Engineer with expertise in SaaS and cloud security.

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Skills

Core Skills

Distributed SystemsCloud SecuritySoftware SecurityInfrastructure SecurityNetwork SecurityOperating SystemsComputer Security

Other Skills

C++Cloud ComputingDatabase DesignSecurity AuditingCompliance ManagementCloud ApplicationsC#MultithreadingTime Series AnalysisMicrosoft AzureScalabilityApplication DevelopmentXMLGit.NET

About

Computer Skills Programming: Go, C++, C#, Python, Java Databases: Postgres, MS SQL Server, MySQL Technologies: Kafka, Hadoop, Terraform, Kubernetes, GraphQL, Helm Fields of expertise and relevant experience Distributed systems (Azure/Bing datacenter infrastructure management, distributed log search tools, time series databases). Envoy (writing filters), Nginx (writing modules). System programming under Linux and Windows (multithreading, networking) Software security, infrastructure security Specialties: Go, C++, C#, Python, multithreading, cloud computing, time series databases, Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes, windows/unix system programming

Experience

17 yrs 3 mos

Total Experience

5 yrs 4 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 1 mo

Current Experience

Anchorage digital

Member of Technical Staff

Apr 2025 – Present · 1 yr 1 mo · United States · Remote

Confluent

Staff Software Engineer

Aug 2023 – Mar 2025 · 1 yr 7 mos · United States

Microsoft

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Mar 2015 – Aug 2023 · 8 yrs 5 mos

Cloud monitoring and diagnostics team (Geneva / MDM)
Area of work: time series database engine used by Microsoft teams like Exchange, Azure Storage or Azure Networking for their systems real-time monitoring.
Designed and implemented database engine features (e.g. real-time percentile calculation support) used by Azure compute, Azure networking, Bing and Azure Storage, scaled toward 100M+ time series
Performed operations management / support of database engine to handle several million individual client machines to send data, implemented changes that rolled out to all machines in Azure.
Optimized code, reduced of COGS for the time series database
Autopilot/Azure team
Autopilot - platform for full-cycle no-ops management of datacenter hardware and services.
security and compliance of the Autopilot platform
tooling and UX of Autopilot platform
Platform security:
Identified potential security issues in existing platform services and tracked their fixes
Performed the security reviews of the new platform features
Performed security audit of the existing code base
Provided input on threat modeling sessions
Designed and implemented security-related services (e.g. audited machine access control, JIT access, claims-based authentication, open port monitoring, antivirus monitoring etc)
UX and tooling:
Improved existing platform tools (~5000 daily active users)
Proactively addressing issues by reacting to telemetry tools produce
Projects designed and implemented:
JIT machine access support
Secure end-to-end solution for accessing datacenter machines from corpnet (traffic tunneling, authentication, JIT access, audits)
Visual Studio remote debugging support for services running on the Autopilot platform
Tooling for seamless quick overrides of the code in a datacenter with test bits for REPL-style development and fast testing / debugging of the new code
Distributed log search tool