Odesa, Ukraine — working remote

Marketing that ships like software.

Currently

Tech Lead SEO & Marketing
Growth Strategist

I'm Max — I design growth strategies, then build the pipelines, tools and teams that actually execute them. Ten years between marketing and engineering, with the scars to prove both.

Max Kiriienko

10+

years in SEO & growth

6+

years leading teams as Lead & CMO

8+

industries, Fintech to iGaming

AI+Py

pipelines running in production

01  —  Expertise

Three things I'm hired for.

01

SEO strategy & execution

Semantic architecture, programmatic SEO, and Top-10 positions in niches that fight back. Technical depth where it counts: crawl budget, Core Web Vitals, schema, drop-domain recovery.

02

Marketing engineering

Python and AI pipelines that delete routine — clustering, content generation with human QA, internal tools on Cloudflare. I ship the tooling instead of filing a ticket for it.

03

Teams & process

Cross-functional teams of developers, designers and marketers on Scrum. Transparent metrics, honest communication, and an environment people don't quietly leave.

02  —  Selected work

Products, platforms and networks I built.

plants.place

Cloudflare Workers SSR · D1 · R2

Houseplant encyclopedia and marketplace for Ukraine. Solo build — product, code, content pipeline and SEO.

Live

Toolsaur

Cloudflare Pages · Vanilla JS

Text analysis and sanitization toolkit — a growing set of fast, no-nonsense web tools.

Live

Harwix

Workers · D1 · Gemini · Jina

AI content platform built on knowledge graphs and entity SEO — content designed to rank in search and surface inside AI answers.

Building

Site Factory

Cloudflare · Registrar API · Monitoring

Automated pipeline that builds, deploys and monitors a network of branded sites end to end: domains, content, analytics, uptime.

NDA

happymonday.ua

SEO · PPC · Analytics engineering

Growth for Ukraine's career platform: SEO, PPC analytics and a full GA4/GTM tracking audit.

Client

Affiliate network

Astro · Workers · AI pipeline

Niche US content sites running a fully automated AI content pipeline and programmatic SEO.

Live

Also in the lab — vtyping, a voice-typing Chrome extension · Stitch, an ML digitizer for PDF embroidery charts · telegram-news, a TypeScript news bot.

03  —  Experience

Ten years, mostly leading.

2025 — now

Legarithm

CMO / SEO Lead

Zero to 3.57M impressions and 28K organic clicks in nine months. Programmatic architecture put 600+ pages in the Top-10; Cursor and Python cut manual work by 40%.

2024 — 2025

TapOK

SEO Team Lead, Fintech

Ten-plus fintech projects with a team of four. Built a systematic drop-domain and PBN process, doubled content velocity with an AI pipeline under strict QA.

2022 — 2024

Independent

Consultant

Full-cycle growth for crypto, legal and e-commerce clients. Took one e-commerce project from zero to profitability in four months.

2021 — 2022

Medical / Pharma IT

Head of SEO & Marketing

Launched YMYL web products with full E-E-A-T compliance and automated the reporting stakeholders relied on.

2019 — 2021

Boosta

SEO Team Lead

Held Top-3 positions for years on a minimal recurring budget and launched new geographies that hit ROI targets on schedule.

2015 — 2019

Promo · Aweb

Lead → Specialist

Built SEO processes from scratch on Scrum. Before that, hands-on site launches: CMS, themes, jQuery/Ajax frontend.

04  —  Words

What people who worked with me say.

He's a genuinely strong technical SEO specialist — the kind of person who digs deep into algorithms, uncovers non-obvious issues, and builds his own solutions when needed.
Vitalii Ilchenko — SEO Team Lead
One of the strongest specialists I've worked with. Max always looks beyond just fixing the tech — he understands the bigger strategy and offers solutions that move the needle.
Anton Tararyiev — Head of SEO, GoIT Global
As my manager, he always made communication easy and clear, and trusted my skills as a designer. A thoughtful leader who creates a comfortable, motivating environment.
Anastasia Bezverbna — Product Designer
Max took on complex areas of work, supported and inspired the team, and mentored on hard tasks. I repeatedly saw him build technical solutions for specific project needs.
Andrii Danylchenko — SEO Technical Lead

05  —  Contact

Let's talk.

Open to leadership roles, consulting, and products worth building. Thirty minutes is usually enough to know if we fit.