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The world isn't broken — it's under-automated

My name is Maxim. I'm an engineer-entrepreneur and a systems architect: I turn an idea into a device, a device into a system, and a system into a working tool that changes reality. I work where physical engineering, automation, AI and manufacturing meet.

M-shaped ENTJ honors degree — public administration inventor published research writing a book
About me, briefly
Me and my agent
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Maxim Petrov
who i am

I'm interested not in individual technologies but in the connections between them. I think in projects — from 3D printing, microcontrollers and smart home to agritech, production automation and AI agents — and I see where engineering, data, business and human behavior come together into one system.

My core is assembling the complex out of the scattered: turning chaos into architecture, and a hypothesis into a prototype.

Technology, to me, isn't decoration for the future but a way to give a person back their autonomy. I don't just use the future — I build it around myself.

domains

What I can do

Eight fields I work in with my hands and my head — from hardware to ideas.

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AI and agentic systems

Hermes, multi-agent pipelines, human-in-the-loop, SQL, Obsidian memory.

02

Process automation

I automate manual, unproductive work.

03

Physical & engineering prototyping

CAD modeling, 3D printing, microcontrollers, smart home.

04

Agritech

A high-tech, automated and controlled cultivation loop.

05

Production automation

From the technology to launching a production line from scratch.

06

Entrepreneurship

Launching products and ventures, operations, economics.

07

Research

Inventions and scientific papers.

08

Philosophy

Studying ontology, epistemology and ethics; writing a book.

core projects

Main projects in progress

What I'm working on right now. Click a block to learn more.

Rotational hydroponic wheel
My personal take on NASA's project for growing plants in zero gravity.
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A stunning photo from the trials will be here soon

This is my research flagship, showing high-tech and a link to space: a rotational hydroponic rig that grows by the principle NASA is developing for zero gravity, and Dyson uses on a strawberry farm in the UK.

An almost fully automated loop: Raspberry Pi as the central brain; Zigbee devices (a link to the smart home); a spectrometer and lux meter — down to the lamp's spectrum; peristaltic dosing pumps; a probe measuring pH, EC, ORP and temperature; a relay block over the whole loop; an agent that analyzes the process and makes suggestions; a control panel with custom widgets and a voice-alert system — when something goes wrong, a synthetic voice insistently reports it.

What I'm saying with this project: "I can put it all together at once, and do it with flair."

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Detailed case — section in progress.
BigFiveOracle
Psychometric analytics as a product: from a Telegram bot to a full web app.
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BigFiveOracle

A human is a complex, in many ways beautiful system. I decided to take a shot at building predictive models of that system. I turn a dry psychometric test result into clear, useful artifacts: preferences at work and in relationships, compatibility, narratives.

Right now it's a working MVP in Telegram — go try it. Soon it becomes a separate site with a star map of your personality based on psychometrics.

Open the bot in Telegram
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Detailed case — section in progress.
NeuroSolutions
My applied-AI practice: agentic systems for business, end to end.
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I design, build and operate applied AI solutions and automations for business: from the client interview and architecture to a deployed, self-hosted pipeline and production support.

I run a parallel portfolio of 4–6 client projects across industries — on infrastructure I administer solo.

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Detailed case — section in progress.
Book
A work of fiction — writing it now.
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Book illustration

Once, Prometheus brought people fire, and its light scattered the darkness of the cosmos, in which man was but a frightened beast among the stars. But any fire strong enough to grant freedom may one day become a flame able to burn everything around. And if humanity turns to ash — what exactly will rise from that ash?

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Detailed case — section in progress.
how i think

Principles

01 Limits aren't prohibitions, but the constraints of the task. 02 Technology, in the end, grants us real freedom. 03 Be a participant in progress, not an observer. 04 Build what can outlast me — in ideas and systems.
capabilities map

M-shaped specialist

A connected graph of domains and projects — how it all fits into one structure. Hover a node to highlight its links.

systems thinking AI agents Automation Prototyping Agritech Manufacturing Entrepreneurship Research Philosophy NeuroSolutions BigFiveOracle HydroWheel Casting Mining Book
trajectory

An unconventional path

I assembled myself through real tasks — from construction sites to agentic systems.

2014 — 2016

Construction — first serious job and rationalization

Mechanized the wall-finishing process under a personal guarantee and earned my first income from the improvement. The episode that laid the foundation of my engineering-entrepreneurial pattern.

2017 — 2018

Family business in food service

Operations, supply, logistics, dealing with external bodies.

2019 — 2024

Municipal council seat

Won the election as an independent; the win was falsified; over ~1.5 years of courts I proved the fraud and got the seat.

2019 — 2023

Higher education — honors degree

Public and municipal administration.

since 2019

Engineering practice and 3D printing

Microcontrollers, circuitry, CAD design, private orders, dozens of products.

since ~2019

Biotech and agritech

Started my interest in sustainable food via a microgreens startup; designing autonomous agritech systems.

since 2021

Mining

Full cycle — from the financial model and legal setup to the engineering: electrical, cooling, infrastructure.

2024

Production casting of PU and epoxy

As project work, launched a polyurethane casting line from scratch and led a team of 5.

since 2025

NeuroSolutions and AI

Applied AI systems for my own products and business; finalist of the federal grant competition "Sozday Nashe" with an AI project.

contact

Get in touch

Write about anything — from a project to a conversation about ideas.

portfolio

Cases

A cross-domain portfolio — from hardware to software. The list grows; click a case to expand.