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Maksym Schipka

Director, R&D, Europe at Kaspersky Lab

Reading, United Kingdom

Current

Director, R&D, Europe at Kaspersky Lab

Past

Senior Architect at MessageLabs
Technical Architect / Development Manager at MessageLabs
Senior Software Engineer at Invisimail
Senior Software Engineer at Kaspersky Lab
Contract Virus Analyst at McAfee

Education

Moskovskij Fiziko-Tehniceskij Institut (Gosudarstvennyj Universitet)
Moskovskij Fiziko-Tehniceskij Institut (Gosudarstvennyj Universitet)

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Industry

Computer Software

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Summary

Energetic, analytical and results-driven Senior Architect with strong vision, hands-on understanding of cutting edge in technology, excellent client management and organisational skills, as well as aspiration to excel on the path to CTO of innovative company. Direct experience in designing large-scale systems and distributed applications, delivering projects on company's critical path under extreme pressure and creating new/reorganising existing teams for better efficiency.

Specialties:

Identification and setting up of new business units

Business unit efficiency optimisation

Business management (as opposed to management of business)

Business processes design and optimisation

* Customer, community and media communications and presentations

Thought leadership, idea generation, patents
Design, implementation and support of complex high availability, high throughput, low latency systems
Complex system performance optimisation

Experience

Director, R&D, Europe

Kaspersky Lab

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

February 2009 — Present (1 year 2 months)
Senior Architect

MessageLabs

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

August 2005 — February 2009 (3 years 7 months)
Technical Architect / Development Manager

MessageLabs

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

December 2003 — August 2005 (1 year 9 months)
Senior Software Engineer

Invisimail

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)

December 2000 — May 2003 (2 years 6 months)
Senior Software Engineer

Kaspersky Lab

(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)

January 1999 — December 2000 (2 years )

- Joined the company still being a student
- Successfully delivered AVP for Microsoft Exchange Server single-handedly in 6 months - the first ever Anti-Virus scanner for Microsoft Exchange Server
- completely green-field project
- involved research into determining the best technology to use, designing the solution, coding the solution and providing last level maintenance support for the solution
- the project was a huge success enabling Kaspersky Lab to be the first on the market with the AV solution for Microsoft Exchange Server
- established the team working on AVP for Mail Servers
Contract Virus Analyst

McAfee

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; MFE; Computer & Network Security industry)

May 1997 — August 1997 (4 months)

- Responsible for analysing malware
- Was writing scripts to detect and remove malware
- Evolved as a team lead and technical authority for 2 other virus analysts

Education

Moskovskij Fiziko-Tehniceskij Institut (Gosudarstvennyj Universitet)

MSc , Applied Mathematics and Physics , 1998 — 2000

- 1999 award for winning the All-Russia Computational Physics Olympiad
- Average grade: 5 out of 5
- Also known as MIPT, PhysTech, MFTI
Moskovskij Fiziko-Tehniceskij Institut (Gosudarstvennyj Universitet)

BSc Hons 1st , Applied Mathematics and Physics , 1994 — 1998

Average grade: 5 out of 5
Also known as MIPT, PhysTech, MFTI