Maxim Pushkar

Experience

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  JSC Railwaycar-Building Works Tver

  May 2003 - Jan 2007

  Software Engineer

  Participated in the implementation of carriage information systems, climate control, lighting, and self-diagnostics. Low-level core and network programming including software executed in real-time operating system. Technology stack: QNX 4.25, C, and Delphi.

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  Self-employed

  Feb 2007 - Jan 2009

  Freelance Programmer

  As a PhD graduate, I tried my hand at scientific programming, reverse engineering, industrial automation, websites, and tools development. The combined technology stack I worked with included x86 Assembly, C, C#, Delphi, PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript.

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  Artplant

  Feb 2009 - Jun 2018

  Headed the newly established tools team. Led the development of the content distribution system to deliver game builds within the company. Developed a web-based prototype of an analytics and interactive visualization tool. Assisted a survival MMORPG project team by creating an optimized map generator based on Voronoi polygons. Participated in the blockchain-based space MMO project by staging the Presale and the Crowdsale smart contracts in the Ethereum blockchain. Both smart contracts secured ~1500 ETH in total. The combined technology stack: C, C++, C#, Erlang, TypeScript, Angular, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, CouchDB, Ethereum, Solidity, Truffle. Show less

  • Lead Programmer

    Sept 2014 - Jun 2018

  • Tools Programmer

    Feb 2009 - Aug 2014
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  Toadman Interactive

  Jul 2018 - Mar 2025

  Headed the bigger team of tools programmers and technical writers under the hood of the Central Technology Group. With the increased resources we are providing the in-house tools for the company, and are also participating in work-for-hire projects. At this moment, I'm leading the development and support of 10+ internal tools and web services such as content delivery, analytics data ingestion & visualization, resource allocation & reporting, test management, etc. As for WFH, I've led the development of an embedded in-game webstore for 2 famous MMORPG titles (~4M players in total) and shipped the project on time. Another interesting WFH project we've done was to bring an analytics to yet another famous MMORPG (>1M players) title. We've processed the server logs for 20+ years, defined logical events, and staged an analytics dashboard based on an in-house analytics web service. The combined technology stack: C#, Erlang, Elixir, TypeScript, Angular, JavaScript, Node, Deno, PostgreSQL, CouchDB, ClickHouse, GraphQL, Docker. Show less

  • Head of Tools Department

    Aug 2019 - Mar 2025

  • Lead Programmer

    Jul 2018 - Jul 2019