Max Bruckner
Senior Backend Engineer (Rust) at amo
Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolMax Bruckner is a Senior Backend Engineer with 12 years of experience building robust, cloud-native systems and a recent focus on Rust for high-performance services. Based in Karlsruhe, he has designed and operated scalable backends for AI vision and image search, integrating Kafka, ElasticSearch, MQTT and TimescaleDB while migrating production services to Azure. He contributes to open-source projects—improving core web framework WebSocket support in gotham and hardening C libraries like cJSON—reflecting a pragmatic focus on reliability, memory-safety and test coverage. Past roles span microservice architectures in Python, Go and Rust, low-level protocol work (double ratchet) and tooling for CI/cloud migrations, showing fluency across stacks from systems to application layers. Colleagues rely on him for thoughtful API design, custom auth solutions for axum, and shipping production-ready features that balance performance with maintainability.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Electronics and Information Techonology, Bachelor of Science - BS Electronics and Information Techonology at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
German, English, Japanese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (33)
javascript10
expressions10
async10
mathematica10
mathematics10
formatting10
memory-management10
websocket10
c1110
text-formatting10
math10
refactor10
maths10
c1710
latex10
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
kbranigan/cJSON
Oct 2015 - Nov 2016
I did not write this code, but I like it.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:158 commits, 7 PRs, 20 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Max primarily focused on fixing and improving the code base by addressing bugs and memory leaks. Their contributions include correcting boolean expressions, resolving memory management issues, and eliminating unnecessary lines of code. They also refactored the codebase, reformatting functions, and addressing format issues in printed objects and strings. Their work demonstrates a focus on code quality, efficiency, and preventing potential errors.
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josdejong/mathjs
Feb 2015 - Oct 2018
An extensive math library for JavaScript and Node.js
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:181 commits, 50 PRs, 35 pushes in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Max primarily focused on enhancing the LaTeX output capabilities of the mathjs library. Their contributions involved fixing bugs related to parenthesis generation, specifically when dealing with fractions, unary operators, and expressions with multiple operands. They also improved the overall structure of the LaTeX output, simplifying the generated code and making it more readable. Furthermore, the user implemented options to control the presence of parentheses in the LaTeX output, improving its flexibility and the presentation of the mathematical expressions.
mathmatricesbignumbersmathematical-expressionsnode-js
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