Maxim Magaziner on building faster, more reliable engineering teams

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Maxim Magaziner, a Staff Software Engineer at Taboola, argues that sustainable engineering velocity comes from reducing uncertainty early, maintaining CI/CD stability, and treating AI as a tool that accelerates delivery without weakening architecture, testing, or maintainability.

Software teams are under constant pressure to move faster. Better development tools, stronger testing frameworks, and more mature deployment systems have shortened the distance between an idea and a working product. But faster delivery also raises the stakes. When architecture, testing, and maintainability are treated as afterthoughts, short-term gains can create long-term problems.

That challenge is central to Maxim Magaziner‘s work. A Staff Software Engineer and Tech Lead at Taboola in Los Angeles, Magaziner has spent more than a decade working across ad tech, performance marketing, recommendation systems, fintech, browser-extension monetization, and mobile and web development.

During more than nine years at Taboola, his role has expanded from hands-on engineering to...

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