Maks Litskevich
Software Engineer at Figma
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMaks Litskevich is a C++ software engineer in London with five years’ experience building high-performance, high-throughput systems that run on millions of devices. He has production experience at Amazon shaping WebAssembly features and delivering LLVM patches and deployment tooling that materially reduced maintenance and integration effort. Prior roles at Yandex, Huawei and Meta focused on database kernel performance, large-scale query load tools, and a 1.5x faster Avro decoder implementation using modern C++17. An active contributor to open-source projects like YDB and the WebAssembly Micro Runtime, he strengthens reliability through CI sanitizers, stress tests and init/startup hardening. Comfortable across systems, DevOps and QA automation, he brings a practical knack for turning diagnostic tooling and test coverage into measurable operational gains.
5 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree (Unfinished), Computer Science, Bachelor's degree (Unfinished), Computer Science at Belarusian State UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at Yandex School of Data Analysis
English, Russian, Russian, Polish
Github Skills (22)
testing10
pthread10
bash10
cicd10
blazor-webassembly10
webassembly10
distributed-database10
pthreads10
interpreter9
cloud-infrastructure9
aot9
infrastructure9
embedded8
database8
database-administration8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
wasm-micro-runtime/wasm-micro-runtime
Apr 2023 - Jul 2025
WebAssembly Micro Runtime (WAMR)
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:130 reviews, 28 PRs, 178 comments in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Maks primarily contributed to the testing and quality assurance aspects of the WebAssembly Micro Runtime (WAMR) project. They added AddressSanitizer (ASAN) and UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer (UBSAN) checks to the continuous integration (CI) pipeline, improving the reliability of the runtime. Furthermore, the user developed stress tests and implemented a test for mutex functionality, extending the project's testing capabilities. The user also fixed a typo in a test script and integrated ThreadSanitizer (TSAN) for fast interpreter and AOT builds, improving the overall testing coverage.
webassemblywasmruntimeinterpreteraot
ydb-platform/ydb
Apr 2022 - Apr 2022
YDB is an open source Distributed SQL Database that combines high availability and scalability with strong consistency and ACID transactions
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 6 issues in 1 day
Contributions summary:Maks primarily focused on modifying the `start.sh` script, likely responsible for local deployment and initialization of the YDB database. Their commits addressed issues related to data file creation, initialization flags, and error handling within the startup process. The changes involve creating data files and initializing the database. The modifications appear to focus on improving the stability and reliability of the local YDB setup.
high-availabilitysql-databaseydbdatabasedistributed
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