CURRICULUM VITAE

                              Maxim Konovalov
                         maxim.konovalov@gmail.com
                     https://www.linkedin.com/in/maxim

SUMMARY

 Entrepreneur and project manager.  25+ years in IT, telecom and
 software development business.

EDUCATION

 2008 2010 Universiteit Antwerpen Management School (UAMS),
 Executive Master of Business Administration
 Moscow, Russia; Antwerpen, Belgium

 1990 1995 Tomsk Institute of Control Systems and Radioelectronics,
 Computer Systems Department
 Tomsk, Russia

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

 02/2025 Present Open Source Endowment Board memeber, https://endowment.dev/

 Building a sustainable future for Open Source

 07/2023 05/2024 F5, Inc, Technical Fellow, CTO for F5 Nginx Product Group

 05/2019 07/2023 F5, Inc, VP of Engineering

 05/2019 03/2022 F5, Inc, GM of Moscow engineering office

 06/2011 05/2019 Nginx, Inc, co-founder

 The company aims to develop, support and commercialize nginx web server.

 In May, 2019 Nginx, Inc was acquired by F5 Networks, NASDAQ:FFIV
 for $700M with 8-digit recurring revenue, four international
 offices and over 200 employees all over the world.

 06/2011 05/2019 Nginx, Inc, Board of Directors Member

 Areas of responsibility

 - Company product portfolio and business strategy
 - Leadership team hiring and development
 - M&A and fundraising activities

 06/2011 05/2019, Nginx, Inc, GM of the Moscow office, VP of Engineering

 Key duties

 - Responsible for getting things done
 - Product development and engineering office bootstrap, growth and management
 - World-wide 24x7 products technical support setup and development
 - Professional service team setup and development
 - Investors relations and fundraising
 - International staff hiring, onboarding and development
 - Key customers relationship development
 - Key partners engineering projects
 - 30% of Fortune500 companies were Nginx customers or users by 2019
 - nginx became a world wide industry standard for frontend web
   server, reverse proxy and software load balancer
 - nginx support org won Silver in 2016 and Gold in 2017 of Stevie
   Awards for Sales & Customer Service

 01/2013 11/2013 Nginx, Inc, COO

 Key duties

 - International company operations management
 - Investors relations and Series B fundraising
 - International staff hiring
 - Key staff hiring and development
 - Product development and engineering office management
 - NGINX Plus product launch in 2013
 - Products trainings for sales and presales orgs
 - Key customers relationship

 06/2011 12/2012 Nginx, Inc, Interim CEO

 Key duties

 - Company legal structure setup and bootstrap
 - Investors relationship and Series A fundraising
 - All company operations management
 - Engineering office bootstrap
 - First employees hiring
 - Company business strategy formation
 - Product strategy and engineering management
 - First customers acquisition
 - International CEO search and hiring

ANCIENT JOB ENTRIES, reduced verbosity

 03/2008 04/2011 Rambler Internet Holding, Moscow, Russia.
 Position: Chief Technical Officer, report to CEO.

 12/2006 03/2008 CJSC COMSTAR-Direct (former MTU-Intel), Moscow,
 Russia.
 Position: Chief Information Officer, report to CTO.

 09/2006 12/2006 SST LLC, Moscow, Russia.
 Position: Chief Technical Officer, report to CEO.

 12/2005 04/2006 MTU-Intel CJSC, http://www.mtu-intel.ru/, Moscow,
 Russia.
 Position: Chief Technical Operation Officer, report to CTO.

 07/2004 12/2005 MTU-Intel CJSC, http://www.mtu-intel.ru/, Moscow,
 Russia.
 Position: Head of The Telematic Service Department, report to CTO.

 03/2004 07/2004 OILspace Inc., USA, http://oilspace.com/, Moscow
 representative, Russia.
 Position: Senior System Administrator.

 08/2000 02/2004 MAcomnet JSC, http://www.macomnet.ru/, Moscow,
 Russia.
 Position: NOC System Engineer.

 06/2000 08/2000 RosBusinessConsulting, http://www.rbc.ru/, Moscow,
 Russia.
 Position: System Administrator.

 08/1995 06/2000 Central Bank of Russia, General Board in Amur
 Region, Blagoveschensk, Russia.
 Position: Senior Developer for Department of Telecommunication.

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