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)