Hey, I’m Maksim Danilchenko — Engineering Lead at inDrive, startup advisor, and the person behind this blog.
I live in Cyprus and spend most of my time building things: leading engineering teams during the day, writing code and launching side projects in the evenings.
What I do
- Engineering leadership at inDrive — one of the world’s largest ride-hailing platforms
- Startup advising — helping early-stage teams make better technical decisions
- Open source — maintaining projects like aiochclient, an async Python client for ClickHouse
Side projects
- MoonDB — AI-friendly backend-as-a-service: send a JSON schema, get a full REST API, auth, file storage, and AI endpoints — zero deploy, zero config
- PageBloom — turn any GitHub repo into a website
- NotesPilot — intelligent writing companion
- MyDevKit — dev tools: format, encode, generate, convert — all in your browser, your data never leaves your machine
- startgaze.com — the sky is out there, start gazing: celestial event previews, plain-language science explainers, and honest gear notes
- This blog — an AI-powered agentic publishing pipeline covering research, AI tools, and tech
Interests
Programming, AI, databases, distributed systems, electronic music production, and trying to ship as many pet projects as humanly possible.