Maxim Belousov
Owner at Hitbox
Tbilisi, Georgia
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SeniorMaxim Belousov is an experienced software engineer and team leader with 14 years building backend systems, most recently founding Hitbox, a high-performance Rust caching framework and reverse proxy daemon. He blends hands-on expertise in Rust and Python ecosystems (Tokio, Actix, Tonic, Diesel; Asyncio, FastAPI, Pydantic) with practical experience designing distributed systems and databases (PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Cassandra) and protocols like CRDT and Raft. At RAMBLER&Co he led media technology teams, making architecture and quality-first decisions while managing hiring, onboarding, and cross-functional planning. Trained in information security and cryptography, he brings a security-minded approach to system design. Based in Tbilisi, he also pursues embedded Linux projects (PinePhone, PineTime), reflecting a curiosity for low-level systems alongside large-scale backend engineering.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Русский, Английский
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Github Skills (77)
python10
python-asyncio10
http10
actix-web10
jasperserver10
http-client10
clear-cache10
aiohttp10
middleware10
async10
validation10
reqwest10
axum10
rust10
tower10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
rambler-digital-solutions/actix-cache
Jan 2020 - Feb 2021
Actix cache is a proxy actor and infrastructure for asynchronous and clear cache interaction for Actix actor and Actix-web frameworks.
Contributions:9 reviews, 87 commits, 18 PRs in 1 year 1 month
actix-webasynchronousclear-cacheproxyactix
singulared/shortland
Sep 2022 - Feb 2026
URL shortner service
Contributions:102 PRs, 132 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 6 months
shortnertinyurlnodejsurl-shortenerbitly
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