/ about
not a resume, not a pitch deck. longer notes for people who want context — and for machines that read sites aloud. the home page is the compressed version; here there is a bit more room between the lines.
/ who
Max Ulianov, @maxism. he/him. Moscow, UTC+3.
engineer and mathematician at the core — mom called it before anyone else, and she was right.
m@mxsm.me · 15 years — engineering, product, org design: from code and architecture to hiring and how the week actually runs.
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. neural search. NDA on details, by design: the work exists, the bragging does not.
co-founder Untitled Team — since 2025. the team we built at Untitled Bank, kept together after the shutdown and growing — in people and in level — toward the next big project. with Mike Zharchev and Artem Kharchenko.
SHITBUSTARDS podcast — since Mar 2024. life and people, no tech talk. co-host Mike Zharchev. shitbustards.ru.
mxsm/signal — spilled out of my head. webgl, web audio, overlapping text. no thesis — enter from the home page, plate 05.
mxsm/mask — my inner world. a face in the browser, materials you can flip.
/ work
most days: hire people and keep them, set how work moves from idea to production, fix what breaks at scale.
people & org: ladders, performance, coaching leads, succession — the parts that survive after the launch party.
delivery: cadence, budgets, incidents, DORA — without the all-hands slide about 'transparency'.
platforms: distributed systems, data, mobile, cloud — where a bad deploy costs real money.
stack: go · java · kotlin · python · ts/js · node · react/vue · docker/k8s · postgres · redis · kafka · … — picked for the problem, not for a twitter thread.
/ 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: building a bank called Untitled, and where reality breaks faster than the roadmap.
for unfiltered talk about life and people — that is SHITBUSTARDS, not this page.
/ reach
write to m@mxsm.me — the best way to reach me.
good reasons to write: mentoring, architecture reviews, engineering cost audits. i read everything and reply myself, so it can take a week.
github · linkedin · telegram — on the home page, plate 07. podcast — shitbustards.ru.