Max Cheetham
Staff Engineer at Bark.com
Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMax Cheetham is a Staff Engineer based in Cardiff with 11 years of experience building backend systems and leading engineering teams across startups and scale-ups. A Cardiff Metropolitan University computer science graduate, he progressed from junior developer roles into leadership at Yoello and Bark.com, delivering reliable server-side architectures and mentoring engineers along the way. He combines practical product-focused engineering with a strong academic grounding in computing, frequently operating at the intersection of data-driven decisions and backend reliability. Outside of work he plays bass guitar, reflecting a creative, collaborative streak that informs his team leadership and problem-solving style.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
1st Class Bachelor Of Science With Honours Computer Science, 1st Class Bachelor Of Science With Honours Computer Science at Cardiff Metropolitan UniversityBachelor of Technology (BTEC) Software Development, Bachelor of Technology (BTEC) Software Development at Richard Huish College
Github Skills (32)
repr10
injection9
eager9
eager-loading9
marshmallow9
logging8
diagnostics8
orm-extension8
dotnet8
makefile8
runner7
csharp7
sqlalchemy7
django7
dependency-injection7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
MaxCheetham/sqlalchemy-mixins
Jun 2021 - May 2023
Active Record, Django-like queries, nested eager load and beauty __repr__ for SQLAlchemy
Contributions:1 push, 2 branches in 1 year 11 months
eagerpython310pythonreprsqlalchemy
MaxCheetham/task
May 2023 - Jun 2023
A task runner / simpler Make alternative written in Go
Contributions:19 pushes in 1 month
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