Maksim Cherkasov
Full-Stack Developer · Node.js / TypeScript / React · DevOps
I build and ship web products end to end: from APIs and infrastructure to the interfaces people actually use. 15+ years of it: client projects and my own services on self-hosted infrastructure.
Featured work
Private VPN Service on a Self-Healing Mesh Network
Commercial private VPN service, solo: self-healing mesh backbone with latency-based routing, a control panel built from scratch, automated config delivery.
Network Management Platform for a Telecom Operator
Network management platform for a mobile operator's Ericsson and Nokia networks: KPI analytics, with the worst-case query cut from ~800s to ~25s.
Experience
Private VPN service
2025 — PresentCommercial project · solo
Designed and run a distributed self-healing mesh VPN network to order: multi-server infrastructure across several hosting providers, automated client-config delivery, routing, fail-over endpoints, and user support.
Network-software container farm
2024 — 2025Commercial project
Deployed and ran a farm of hundreds of Docker containers for third-party network software on a Proxmox cluster — 3 servers, up to 400 containers each — with a custom Node.js control system and Linux kernel tuning for hundreds of thousands of concurrent TCP connections.
FamilyCounts
2022 — 2025Full-Stack Developer · solo backend + web
Grew and stabilized a mobile personal-finance app (~2,000 users): built the first web client in React + Vite, restored an abandoned test suite that immediately surfaced a few production bugs, and rewrote heavy queries from Waterline to Knex so they stopped dragging.
Telecom network-management platform
2019 — 2021Full-Stack Developer · contract
Lead developer of a mobile operator's network platform. Optimized the worst-case KPI query from ~800s to ~25s, built a scheduled XLSX reporting service, and migrated the frontend to Vue.js.
Freelance
2016 — 202371 contracts
From one-off tasks to multi-year retainers: PHP, CMS and e-commerce, hosting and migrations. The largest multi-year contracts are broken out above.
- PHP
- WordPress
- Node.js
- TypeScript
- Vue.js
- MySQL
- AWS
SKV24 web studio
2010 — 2019Developer & Infrastructure
Ran development, servers, backups and telephony for a web studio — ~150 client sites, a city-portal engine (~40 sites), in-house monitoring tools, an Asterisk PBX, and DDoS recovery without data loss.
Stack at a glance
Let's build something together.
Open to remote full-stack roles. I usually reply within a day.