Software Developer at Pollard Banknote·Winnipeg, Canada

MaximAbdulkhalikov

Software Engineer with an eye for product. I build the shared platform behind lottery apps for 8 clients, and in my own time I ship tools for AI retrieval and real-time graphics.

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Work

Pollard Banknote (opens in a new tab)

Mar 2024 – Present

Software Developer, Core Product Team

I build the shared platform behind lottery apps for 8 clients, played by millions of people.

QA per widget, down from a day: <10 min
players at the Arizona launch: 30,000+
faster load after Next.js: 4×

Designed the embeddable widget system (40+ widgets per client) and built a test environment that cut QA per widget from a full day to under 10 minutes
Acting tech lead for Arizona’s relaunch: led 8 developers for 12 weeks and shipped on time to 30,000+ players
Led a slow client app’s move to Next.js, making it load nearly 4× faster
Moved the widget build from Create React App to Vite, taking known security vulnerabilities from 380 to 0
Built react-core, the TypeScript API layer every front end uses, and review code for a team of about 15 developers

React
TypeScript
Next.js
Vite
Storybook
AWS Amplify

OutreachGenius (opens in a new tab)

May 2023 – Jan 2024

Frontend Architect and Developer

One of the first engineers at an early-stage startup, building its web app and Chrome extension.

Architected the web app and the Chrome extension, with a Tailwind design system
Set up Firebase for real-time data and authentication
Moved the extension from legacy Vue to React and TypeScript as it grew from 0 to 500+ users

React
TypeScript
Vue
Firebase
Tailwind
Chrome extensions

Projects

Built on my own time, end to end. All open source.

godot-rag-sgky.vercel.app

Godot Docs RAG

Ask the Godot Engine docs in plain English and watch every retrieval step happen.

questionvector · Pineconekeyword · BM25RRF fusioncited answer

hit rate @5: 89%
MRR: 0.81
chunks indexed: 8,580

Hybrid search: Pinecone vectors plus a hand-written BM25 index, fused with Reciprocal Rank Fusion. No RAG framework.
Grounded answers with citations, and an evaluation harness behind every change
Crash-safe incremental sync, rate limiting and 57 tests in CI

Python
FastAPI
OpenAI
Pinecone
Next.js
Redis

Open live app Source

visual-lab / glass_blocks.mp4

Visual Lab

Stack pixel, dither, bloom and glitch layers on images and video in real time, entirely in the browser.

10 stackable effects: Canvas 2D for images, a WebGL path for video
Drag-to-reorder layers, palette sampling and full-resolution export
The demo here is a port of its shaders, running on one of my Blender renders

Next.js
TypeScript
WebGL
Canvas 2D

Open live app Source

More experiments

3D Scratch Ticket2025

A three.js scratch-off ticket with a holographic foil shader.

PacketVis2022

Research project: Wireshark captures as packets flying across a 3D map.

DevClub website2022

Designed and built the UofM programming club’s site.

Design workMusica Music Animals Artwork

Experience

Mar 2024 – Present
Software Developer, Core Product Team
Pollard Banknote (opens in a new tab) · Winnipeg, MB
May 2023 – Jan 2024
Frontend Architect and Developer
OutreachGenius (opens in a new tab) · Winnipeg, MB

Volunteering

Apr 2022 – Present
Promotions Executive, Lead Designer
DevClub / Hackathon Winnipeg (opens in a new tab) · Winnipeg, MB
- Organized the largest UofM hackathon since 2015, for 200–300+ students.

Education

2018 – 2023
B.Sc. Computer Science
University of Manitoba · Winnipeg, MB
2016 – 2018
Diploma in Art and Design
Art School of Kasteyev · Almaty, KZ

Toolbox

Languages: TypeScriptJavaScriptPythonC#JavaGraphQL
Frontend: ReactNext.jsReact NativeViteTailwindReduxWebGLthree.js
Platform: Node.jsFastAPIAWS AmplifyVercelFirebaseCI/CDMonoreposPackage publishing
Quality: JestPlaywrightVitestStorybookAccessibility (WCAG)
AI and data: RAGOpenAIPineconeEvaluation harnesses
Design: FigmaBlenderProcreateDesign systems

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About

I studied art and design in Almaty, Kazakhstan, before computer science in Winnipeg, and I still work where the two meet: I care how an interface feels, not only whether it ships.

I like taking a system from the architecture call to production and leaving it easy for the next developer. Off the clock I model in Blender (the glass on this page is mine) and paint in Procreate.