Summary
Maxim Schepelin is an engineering manager based in Amsterdam with 12 years of experience leading teams to build and scale high-traffic web products. He’s currently at Booking.com, where he moved from development lead to manager while shaping architecture roadmaps and delivery metrics that improved predictability for deadline-sensitive work. Previously he scaled engineering at OZON—growing teams, re-architecting services to survive 5x Black Friday traffic with zero incidents, and shipping a widget-based CMS for zero-code page configuration. He combines hands-on backend expertise (Go, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes) with people-first leadership, hiring and coaching engineers into stronger contributors. A mathematician by training, he brings a data-informed approach to delivery and testing automation that consistently reduces operational risk.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computational and Applied Mathematics, Bachelor's degree, Computational and Applied Mathematics at Siberian Federal University (former Krasnoyarsk State University)
English, Russian