Hello from maxskorikov.com

This is the first post on my new personal site. I’ll keep this one short because the interesting stuff will come later.

What lives here

Two things:

1. Writing. Long-form notes on backend systems, engineering leadership, and the particular kind of ugly that production software develops over time. Nothing on a schedule — I post when I have something worth saying.

2. A gated front door for my resume. If someone asks for a copy of my CV, they get a unique six-character link. That link opens the right version of the resume for the conversation we’re having — different audiences get different emphases — and I get a quiet ping when it’s opened.

Why gate the resume at all

Two reasons. First, I want the version of my resume you read to be the one I tuned for you; if you got the link for a platform role, I don’t want you accidentally reading the version I wrote for a Head of Engineering conversation. Second, I’d rather not have my work history indexed by every LLM crawler on the open web. Links are short, non-guessable, and revocable.

How it’s built

The site itself is static Astro on Cloudflare Pages. The gate is a tiny Pages Function backed by Workers KV — no database, no Node server, no containers. A Telegram bot on the admin side mints new links and pings me when one opens.

The whole thing fits well inside Cloudflare’s free tier, which is a funny sentence to write about what amounts to my professional front door.

More soon.