Maksim Kachurin

CTO • Product-Focused Engineer • Frontend Architect

📍 Los Angeles
✉️ kachurun@gmail.com
👾 github.com/kachurun
📝 linkedin.com/in/kachurun

Professional Overview

Technical leader with 10+ years of experience in B2B SaaS development. Built Flexbe.ai, an AI-powered website builder with 35K+ active projects and 8.5M+ leads annually, achieving an NPS of 66% — well above SaaS benchmarks. Led the architecture for AI infrastructure, modular frontend, and global rollout across 56 markets. Committed to engineering quality, open-source, and systems thinking.

Key Skills

Soft Skills: Leadership & Mentorship | Async-first culture | Cross-functional collaboration | Product thinking | UX-driven delivery | Rapid decisions with limited data

Technical Skills: Architecture design (monorepos, microservices, modular codebases) | AI Systems (LLM orchestration, RAG, Langfuse) | Frontend (TypeScript, React, SolidJS, Astro, Storybook) | DevOps (Docker Swarm, zero-downtime CI/CD) | Web3 (EVM, smart contracts, dApps)

Experience

CTO / Frontend Lead Engineer · Flexbe.ai · 2015 — Present

As the co-founder and ongoing architect of the platform, led development of nearly every core system — from frontend architecture and AI infrastructure to deployment tooling and design workflows.

  • 1 Built and scaled Flexbe to 35K+ active paid sites generating 8.5M+ annual leads, with NPS reaching 66%
  • 2 Led global infrastructure rollout across 56 markets with region-specific configurations, distributed data strategy, and national domain support
  • 3 Launched AI page generator (3000+ monthly uses) with agent-based flow and RAG image search over 5M+ assets — high first-try success rate for AI-generated pages
  • 4 Delivered production-ready AI copywriting tool used in 5500+ monthly chat sessions
  • 5 Implemented observability layer with Langfuse + custom analytics for prompt optimization and debugging
  • 6 Migrated entire product to fault-tolerant zero-downtime deployments using Docker Swarm and Canary rollout strategies
  • 7 Improved CI/CD by 4x and local development by 15x through caching and incremental build tooling
  • 8 Rewrote legacy frontend with TypeScript, SolidJS, MobX, ESBuild, and Tailwind — reduced bugs and boosted delivery speed
  • 9 Designed HTML editor with live component build, image optimization, and modular islands architecture — supporting React, CSS Modules, and NPM packages directly in the browser — enabling professional users to create embeddable components directly on the page without local setup
  • 10 Built and led an international engineering team spanning multiple time zones, shaped team culture around async-first collaboration and autonomy, and established foundational processes for hiring, 1-on-1s, performance reviews, career growth, and mentorship

Web3 Projects · 2022

Built and shipped several dApps (EVM, smart contracts, wallet APIs). Ran a Telegram channel with 1500+ subscribers, sharing technical insights and code examples.

Earlier Roles

Worked as a full-stack developer and system administrator in smaller teams. At City-Call, managed multi-office infrastructure across several cities (200+ machines, local servers, and network architecture). Also contributed to internal tools and CMS development at INSMART Web Studio.

Education

GeekBrains Online School – Team and Staff Management (2021)

Anosov College, Russia – Software Development (2008–2012)

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