Max Brauer is a Staff Engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native and platform infrastructure, currently working on Spring AppSSO at VMware Tanzu to deliver application-level single sign-on for Kubernetes. He has progressed from backend Python and Django development to leading platform teams and architecting identity and platform solutions at Delivery Hero, Pivotal Labs, and VMware. Based in Berlin, Max blends hands-on implementation with technical leadership, mentoring teams through scaling, CI/CD and secure cloud deployments. His background includes academic research and a Master’s in Computer Science from Universität Hamburg, underpinning a pragmatic, evidence-driven approach. An avid tinkerer whose GitHub motto "localhost is in the eye of the beholder" hints at a playful, developer-first mindset, he focuses on making complex distributed systems simple to operate.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Abitur, Maths, English, Abitur, Maths, English at Städtisches Gymnasium Bad Segeberg
Master, Computer Science, Master, Computer Science at Universität Hamburg
Contributions:28 reviews, 2 PRs, 135 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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