Developed and Standardized a Frontend Component Library: Created, managed, and maintained a frontend component library to ensure consistent application appearance and enhance analytics collection, focusing on acceptability standards.Optimized Data Interfaces: Replaced existing data interfaces with custom solutions tailored to the application's requirements, reducing duplicate database queries and unnecessary data retrieval.Simplified Backend Data Models: Reduced complexity of backend data models, making them more flexible and composable by the API or web client. Replacing Hibernate improved integration testing and lowered costs associated with end-to-end testing.Enhanced Cloud Application Management: Improved management of secrets and configuration for cloud-distributed applications.Defined Testing Guidelines and Created Custom Tooling: Established testing guidelines and developed custom tools to quickly set up test scenarios, enabling developers to craft complex examples efficiently and maintain them as application behavior evolved.

Mentored Junior Engineers: Guided junior engineers on best practices for software development, resulting in improved code quality and faster delivery times.Collaborated with Product Managers and Stakeholders: Worked closely with product managers and stakeholders to gather requirements and prioritize features for new applications.Practiced Extreme Programming (XP): Embraced Extreme Programming principles, including pair programming, test-driven development (TDD), and continuous integration (CI). This methodology ensured high-quality code, rapid iterations, and increased collaboration among team members.Cross-Functional Team Collaboration: Collaborated with product managers, UX designers, and engineers to ensure a seamless development process and an optimal end-user experience.Contributed to Diverse Application Portfolio: Contributed to the development of a portfolio of over 20 applications, utilizing a variety of programming languages and technologies, demonstrating adaptability and technical proficiency.

Improved User Adoption Rate: Contributed to the development of the onboarding user experience, leading to an increase in user adoption and engagement.Enhanced Cross-Retailer Product Matching: Played a key role in developing cross-retailer product matching systems, which boosted in-house sales and affiliate revenue by providing users with more relevant product recommendations.Designed Email Campaign Management System: Developed and implemented an email campaign management system, enhancing the company's marketing capabilities and engagement strategies.

Analyzed Business Problems and Scoped Solutions: Engaged with stakeholders to thoroughly understand business problems, gather requirements, and scope effective technical solutions. This involved translating complex business needs into actionable technical specifications.Implemented Distributed Systems Architecture: Leveraged distributed systems architecture to enhance application availability, scalability, and performance, accelerating both deployment and development processes.Automated Tasks and Maintained Production Applications: Developed scripts and designed dashboards to automate routine tasks, streamline operations, and maintain production applications. This included monitoring system health and performance to ensure reliable application functionality.Led Engineering Team for Financial Automation: Directed an engineering team to automate access to financial information, streamlining the creation of executive reports. This automation improved the accuracy and timeliness of financial data delivery to key stakeholders.

Supervise associates and their workflow to ensure quality performance and risk preventionCreated tracking applications in Excel and Visual Basic Studio. Supervised Transaction Specialists. Performed quarterly branch audits to ensure company and regulatory compliance. “Max had a great year with his scorecard, receiving 3.81, which is one of the top 5 in the company. He had a great number of introduction numbers all year and had very little to no off-ages or errors. He was constantly on the TS of the Month and Quarter with his hard work and effort.”

Managed client relationships and generated sales through annual financial check ups. Analyzed and tailored risk-based financial plans for clients.

Integrated legacy software with SAP an enterprise resource planning software. Created excel macros to reduce manual data entry between the systems.