Senior/lead level Developer & Designer. Working with companies large & small. Bridging the gap between Design, Engineering & Business.
Selected Work & Case Studies
Creating an Art Gallery in the heart of Barcelona
Working with a friend & multiple collaborators; I helped to open an art gallery in Barcelona, Spain. Getting hands-on with the operational setup. Designing, Branding, Settings up the e-commerce store, Painting walls; Managing all the accounting and finances, implementing the in-shop pos system & helping to run events.
"I could not of attempted this without Max's help!" Adrian Gibas — Shimmy
Enterprise Data Platform redesign
Responsible for the design of an internal product for Adevinta within their enterprise data and machine learning departments.
Working closely with internal business and data stakeholders. I helped lead the end-to-end redesign of an existing internal organisation mission critical tool. This included UX research, BDD user stories, designing components, page mockups with Figma, and code-based work on their React components library. Tech Stack: UX Research, TypeScript, BDD, Figma, React, Component Libraries.
"instrumental in optimising the Frontend code and designs for a new data catalogue tool that was being developed by the company." Tim Yagan — AdevintaDesigning a geospatial creator platform
Going from concept to fully running company with a team of ten, I helped to lead the product design & development. Defining style guidelines, architected and developed the full-stack application. Set up and managing the IT/App infrastructure.
Increased data visibility and team autonomy by engineering a custom ETL platform and self-service SQL dashboards. Allowing the organisation wide tracking of KPIs & Metrics Tech Stack: Nuxt, Vite, Supabase, TypeScript, Playwright, Sentry, Google Maps API, GitHub actions, Cloudflare, Meltano, Metabase.
Refactoring a nation wide health platform
I started at Heart for Health to help out with their Cypress automated end to end testing, but then got moved up to help the development team towards a refactor of the platform. I helped write up the front-end documentation, code style guide; hosting discussions and planning the refactor. All the while fitting this in with the products existing pipeline of business critical work and features that needed to be made. Tech Stack: Vue.js, Node.js, Cypress, Pinia, JavaScript, Lerna, Webpack.
"Max is an exceptional senior frontend developer who has made a significant impact on our team. In his role, he took on the responsibility of refactoring specific parts of our codebase and introducing new patterns to improve the performance and user experience of our application..." Vladimir Velkovski — Heart for Health
Tooling a suite of Onchain financial apps
Worked across a suite of Fintech applications facilitating end-to-end solutions for tokenized assets. Developed specifications and products through BDD/TDD testing and release. As well as creating a framework-agnostic global design system based on web components and StencilJS, and helped to set up CI DevX infrastructure with GitHub Actions.
Writing the Vue.js Course for Ironhack code camp
Authored the Vue.js course for students attending the IronHack code camp. The course covered the fundamentals of Vue.js, including components, directives, and lifecycle hooks. Students were able to build a simple Vue.js application from scratch, and were also introduced to more advanced topics such as Vuex and Vue Router & API's.
After completing the Vue.js course I also updated the React course to correct some issues, update the instructions for recent versions of react & include more detail on advanced topics such as React Router and Redux.