Hi there 👋

You have stumbled onto my personal README. Here you can learn more about who I am and what I do, if you're interested.

Besides, you can contact me using any of the ways listed above, feel free to do so! I'm open to invitations and other opportunities.

General

I'm 17 years old, student at in Moscow, enrolled in the Software Engineering bachelor course since 2024. You can call me whatever you want, I'd suggest Max or Maxim.

Areas of interest

1. 🛡️Infosec / CTF : member of World Wide Flags (top 50 worldwide), specializing in cryptography/math/PPC, now less regularly playing as xls team (top 20 in Russia) and as a guest member in other teams.
   Interested in developing CTF tasks of my specialization. If you need any feel free to reach out!
2. 🔬Science, mathematics and physics: interested in knowing more about math or physics of different kinds, for infosec/coding or otherwise, both as casual learning and as professional/academic research. I don't have any actual experience, but would love to try. If you do research and think I could be helpful to you, please reach out!
3. 🕹️Games : Tetr.io S- rank, osu! 1700pp. I play different genres, but love indie puzzles the most.
4. 🔍Algorithmic programming : previously active at Codeforces and in Russian olympiads. Achieved a 2nd award in the Moscow olympiad for school students.
5. 🧑‍💻Coding : I would consider invites for project and hackathons, you can see samples of my code here on Github (not the best of my code, honestly, but better than nothing)

Some of my skills

• Programming: several years of Python scripting, experience using Rust and Go.
• Speaking: native Russian, B2 - Upper Intermediate English.
• Cryptography: RSA, AES, Diffie-Hellman, Elliptic curves, lattices.
• CTF: basic pwn, reverse engineering, forensics, jail escape, web exploitation, networking.
• Algorithms: dynamic programming, segment trees and treaps, basic graph and string algos.
• Linux, Docker, basic deploy.

Employment

I don't plan to be employed until 2026 to focus on my education.