I'm Maksim. I'm writing about my experience in technology, product management, and personal life. For the past 15 years, I went from a developer to a CTO. I'm currently working as a technical advisor to several companies that improve people's lives.

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• Learning Rust by Building a Redis Alternative with AI

  Published:Mar 10, 2026 |  at 10:00 AM

  How I learned Rust by building rLightning - a Redis-compatible in-memory data store - evolving from Cursor to Claude Code, and now running it in 10 personal projects.

• Don't underestimate your previous experience!

  Published:Feb 17, 2023 |  at 12:00 PM

• Eternal deadline

  Published:Feb 13, 2023 |  at 03:24 PM

• Deploying docker image with drone

  Published:Dec 11, 2022 |  at 03:24 PM

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• Why the Brain Keeps Straightening My Walk Home

  Published:Mar 16, 2026 |  at 07:00 PM

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  Published:Feb 15, 2023 |  at 12:00 PM