Max Krou

CTO, engineering leader, AI product builder

Building consumer AI apps under Althera LLP.

Founder / CTO of Althera LLP. Commercial products are developed and operated by the company.

experience

12+ years — backend engineering → AI product building

2024 — Present
Founder / CTO · Althera, Manaraga, Rivo
Founding and operating consumer AI products. Owning engineering, product, and infrastructure end-to-end — from orchestration and evals to agents shipped in production.
2019 — 2024
Engineering Manager · Mobalytics, SEMrush
Led Go platform teams. Scaled high-throughput services, mentored backend engineers, owned the architecture roadmap.
2014 — 2022
Backend Engineer · Mobalytics, SEMrush, GS Labs, MTS
Shipped distributed Go services across gaming analytics, SEO tooling, broadcast platforms, and telecom. Grew from individual contributor into a senior backend role.

Full work history on LinkedIn.