Max Kovalenko | Senior Full Stack Engineer

Senior Full Stack Engineer with 10+ years of experience building SaaS and enterprise products in TypeScript, React, Node.js, and Golang. Co-founded a venture-backed platform ($1.5M raised). I ship production software with Cursor, Claude Code, and OpenCode: agents write the implementation; I own architecture, review, tests, and production quality.

EXPERIENCE

Alix ↗

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FEB 2026 - PRESENT

| Senior Software Engineer
  • › Sole engineer on the AI agent stack: production LangChain agents in Python for form filling and legal document processing, replacing manual staff work across thousands of documents a month.
  • › Built the async pipeline behind them - Kafka job queues and MinIO document storage - so ingestion scales independently of agent execution.
  • › Built an internal MCP server giving agents authenticated access to core company tools and data.
  • › Designed the human-in-the-loop boundary: agents draft, staff verify, so throughput scales without shipping unreviewed output.
  • › Integrated the agents into the live Node.js/React product, working across the Python services and the TypeScript app.

Tech Stack: Python, LangChain, React, Node.js, Prisma, Kafka, MinIO

EPAM Systems ↗

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AUG 2025 - FEB 2026

| Senior Software Engineer
  • › Owned frontend architecture for enterprise Life Sciences client: canvas-heavy React app (Konva.js, ShadCN, Vite, React Query), including key technical decisions.
  • › Shipped it to internal production in six months, on schedule; ran client demos as the engineering face of the work.

Tech Stack: React, TypeScript, ShadCN UI, Vite, React Query, Konva.js

Zelt ↗

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DEC 2024 - MAR 2025

| Product Engineer (Contract)
  • › Integrated a people-ops (HR) application into the existing ecosystem using Next.js and Nest.js.
  • › Overhauled the integration testing strategy, expanding coverage and driving team-wide adoption within a four-month contract.

Tech Stack: React, Next.js, Nest.js, TypeScript, Node.js, Material UI, SWR

Frame (demo) ↗

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NOV 2021 - NOV 2024

| Co-founder & CTO

part-time until Dec 2022

  • › Co-founded venture-backed team workspace ($1.5M raised); led hybrid team of 10+ engineers: mentoring, hiring/ramping, turning business goals into technical roadmaps.
  • › Architected the product from greenfield: local-first, real-time suite (notes, wiki, whiteboard, tasks) that worked offline and felt instant, using Yjs/CRDTs.
  • › Owned 100% of infrastructure and CI/CD (AWS, Lambda, PostgreSQL); backend split across Node.js and Go.
  • › Led product bets that connected Frame to how teams already worked, including Jira, Notion, and Google Drive integrations.

Frontend: React, TypeScript, React Query, Slate.js, Jotai, Vite, Yjs, Cypress

Backend: Node.js, AWS, AWS Lambda, PostgreSQL, Golang

Level Access ↗

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APR 2020 - DEC 2022

| Software Engineer

part-time from Nov 2021

  • › Engineered a core browser automation and accessibility reporting tool, including custom React dashboards to visualize aggregated scanning data.
  • › Optimized internal engineering processes, upgrading CI/CD pipelines and tooling to improve development velocity.

Tech Stack: React, Next.js, TypeScript, GraphQL

2UP ↗

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AUG 2017 - JUL 2019

| Front-end Developer
  • › Solely managed a Shopify app serving 300,000+ users, owning end-to-end development, infrastructure scaling, and technical support.
  • › Delivered multiple client solutions using React, Laravel, and PHP, partnering directly with stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical roadmaps.

Tech Stack: React, Laravel, PHP, Sass, Less, Node.js

Freelance

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JUN 2015 - FEB 2017

| Full stack Developer
  • › Built e-commerce, landing pages, and custom CRM applications from scratch using React, PHP, and WordPress.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Core

  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • Python
  • Golang
  • Node.js

Frontend

  • React
  • Next.js
  • Vite
  • TanStack Query
  • Tailwind
  • MUI

Backend

  • Node.js
  • NestJS
  • Prisma
  • Kafka
  • Redis
  • Protobuf

Databases

  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB
  • SQLite

Infra / Tooling

  • AWS (Lambda, SQS/SNS, CloudFormation)
  • Google Cloud
  • GitHub Actions
  • Cypress
  • MinIO

AI / agents

  • LangChain
  • MCP
  • pgvector
  • Cursor
  • Claude Code
  • OpenCode

OPEN SOURCE

  • › Laravel↗ - merged fix to Eloquent's MorphTo relation in the core framework.
  • › Cachet↗ - merged two-factor auth upgrade on a 14.8k-star status page.

EDUCATION

Southern Federal University

2016 - 2018 | Applied Informatics

CONTACTS