Max Furman
Software Engineer at Smallstep
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMax Furman is a software and infrastructure engineer based in San Francisco with 12 years of professional experience and a CMU degree in Mathematics and Computer Science. He bridges backend and infrastructure work, shipping production services and automations across gambling, i-banking/finance, and network security domains. At Smallstep he contributed to core certificate authority and ACME server functionality, improving test coverage and adding Ed25519 support in CLI tools—showing a practical focus on zero-trust and TLS automation. Previously he led DevOps at Betable, migrating clusters across providers with zero downtime and saving hours daily via backup and ETL optimizations. Comfortable across languages and tooling (Go, Node, Python, Jenkins, Puppet, Kafka, Cassandra), he combines mathematical rigor with pragmatic engineering to solve reliability and security problems. Notably, he pairs hands-on coding with infrastructure design, making him effective at taking features from prototype to hardened production.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Mathematics and Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Russian
Github Skills (11)
security10
go10
x50910
acme10
oauth10
jwt10
testing10
api-design9
cryptography9
certificate9
jwk8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
smallstep/cli
Jul 2018 - Jan 2023
🧰 A zero trust swiss army knife for working with X509, OAuth, JWT, OATH OTP, etc.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:82 releases, 482 reviews, 1069 commits in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Max primarily focused on modifying and improving the code related to X509, OAuth, and JWT within the `smallstep/cli` repository, which is designed for zero-trust security tasks. Their contributions included markdown formatting, dead code removal, and introducing support for the OKP Ed25519 key type. The user also updated code examples and corrected documentation related to various commands, such as `certificate create` and `keypair`, for enhanced clarity.
yubikeysignsshzero-trustsecurity-tools
smallstep/certificates
Oct 2018 - Jan 2023
🛡️ A private certificate authority (X.509 & SSH) & ACME server for secure automated certificate management, so you can use TLS everywhere & SSO for SSH.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:76 releases, 483 reviews, 801 commits in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Max primarily focused on adding and testing core functionality within the `smallstep/certificates` repository. Their work involved implementing and unit testing the `authority.New` and `authority.Provisioners` APIs. The user's contributions included implementing and validating new features related to certificate authority management, and improving the test coverage of the ACME server.
sshacme-serversecurecertificate-authoritysecurity-tools
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