Max B.

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Tech lead for a team of 5 engineers focused on building products to bring in alternative sources of revenue to TodayTix. Led development on the new Todaytix Rewards program which launched in July 2024

TodayTix is a fast growing theater ticketing startup with more than 1m monthly active users. I interned there for Q3 of 2019. > Made TodayTix's two biggest ever lotteries possible by developing a bulk lottery feature, which resulted in more than 1.5m lottery entries in Q3 alone. > Drastically increased consumer satisfaction by automating the daily sending of tens of thousands of lottery loser emails with AWS Lambda, SQS and Python scripts. > Reduced developer downtime by 300% by implementing CircleCI parallelization on integration tests. > Quintupled some lottery picking times by implementing Java concurrency, thread safety and deadlock protection on the lottery picking algorithm. > Day to day Improvements on lottery and rush algorithms and user facing pages in Groovy/Grails and JavaScript while being a key member of an agile team.

Soho Strategy is a consulting startup that provides software development services for a variety of clients. I was one of a handful of developers working on an assortment of web and mobile based projects. > Greatly improved an NHS mobile app’s content library by creating a new, Node/React based, content management system with increased functionality and API integration > Integrated that CMS by updating a PHP API which serves application data to the React Native app > Helped a client increase school attendance by 7% by updating a Go backend/React frontend application for a student behavioral study > Helped an early stage startup gain a sizeable user base by creating an onboarding web application for user sign up and information entry with React and Node > Designed and maintained PostgreSQL databases for a variety of projects. > Deployed web applications using AWS

Synthace offers a platform for automating biological research with both web application and native application components. I was brought on to write tests for the web app, as well as the native app’s installer. > Optimised developer efficiency by developing and integrating frontend integration tests using Cypress, Node, and Azure > Automated and developed installation tests usings Azure, VSTS and Pester

Rideto is a startup that provides a search and booking tool for motorcycle lessons in the UK. I was charged with updating and managing their website. > Boosted user traffic and sales with a complete redesign of website frontend using React > Added essential features including booking system and school management system with Django

Envairo is a startup that uses CO2 sensors in office buildings to measure room occupancy and air quality. I came on to create a dashboard for clients to monitor this information. > Created a vital aspect of the product by developing a web dashboard for clients in Flask > Created onboarding application for clients to set up devices using Javascript.