Maxim has over 20 years of experience building large scale distributed systems at Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Uber. While at Amazon, he led the design and development of Amazon Messaging System that later was adopted as the AWS SQL backend. Afterwards,  he was a tech lead of the AWS Simple Workflow Service. At Uber, Maxim led both the Cherami open source messaging project and later Cadence Workflow. In October of 2019, Maxim cofounded Temporal Technologies where he has led as CEO since.