/ about
not a resume, not a pitch deck. longer notes for humans and for machines that read aloud. the home page is the compressed blueprint; here there is a bit more air between the lines.
/ who
Max Ulianov, @maxism. he/him. Moscow, UTC+3.
m@mxsm.me · 15+ years — engineering, product, org design: from code and architecture to hiring and operating cadence.
i usually show up where a team and a system need to be built from zero — or where something outgrew the agreements faster than anyone renegotiated them.
MEPhI, master's (2005–2010). before that — specialized math & physics school #1580.
/ now
CTO @ MTS.ai — since Dec 2025. generative neural search. NDA on details, by design: the work exists, the bragging does not.
co-founder Untitled Team — 2025, reboot after Untitled Bank. with Mike Zharchev and Artem Kharchenko.
SHITBUSTARDS podcast — since Mar 2024. co-host Mike Zharchev (on air: Mikos). shitbustards.ru.
mxsm/signal — generative art on this domain: webgl, web audio, three voices. does not explain itself — enter from the home page, plate 05.
/ work
people & org: hiring at scale, ladders, performance, coaching leads, succession — when roles outlive a single release.
delivery: operating cadence, budgets, discovery → delivery, incidents, DORA, SLA, OKR — without «transparency» theatre.
architecture & platforms: distributed systems, data, mobile, cloud, observability — where mistakes cost more than a rollback.
product: portfolio, roadmaps, experiments, analytics, guardrails — no «synergy».
stack: go · java · kotlin · python · ts/js · node · react/vue · docker/k8s · postgres · redis · kafka · spark · elastic · … — tools for the job, not a religion.
/ path
geography: Russia → Germany → UAE → UK → Uzbekistan → Russia again.
banking (Untitled Bank), adult (OnlyFans), space (Precious Payload), iot (Moeco), studio (RentaTeam), gov (Ministry of Digital) — different industries, similar work: scale, regulation, payments, teams.
shipped Launch.ctrl, Fabble, OneSpace, Codewards. via studio — Dodo, VW, VCV, Timepad.
full timeline with dates — on the home page, plate 03. archive on mxsm.me ↗
/ talks
PLUS-Forum Digital Uzbekistan, May 2025, Tashkent — with Mike Zharchev: trying to raise an unnamed bank and where reality breaks faster than the roadmap.
for unfiltered long-form — that is SHITBUSTARDS, not this page.
/ reach
write to m@mxsm.me — the best way to reach me.
i reply within a week, sometimes longer. selective on meetings and projects — not politeness, load and attention quality.
github · linkedin · telegram — on the home page, plate 06. podcast — shitbustards.ru.