Max Goldenberg
Tech Lead at Unicorn Machine
Tallinn, Harju County, Estonia
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Top SchoolMax Goldenberg is a Tech Lead with 13 years of experience building scalable backend and SRE solutions across startups and large enterprises, currently leading engineering at Unicorn Machine from Tallinn. He combines hands-on systems work—Node.js, Go, Kafka, Kubernetes and observability stacks—with proven leadership in SLO-driven reliability, company-wide incident coordination, and developer experience improvements. At Pipedrive he implemented an SLO framework used across 15 teams, built rate limiting in Go, and helped define API gateway and incident processes affecting ~400 engineers. He has shipped product-facing features and led teams and hiring, while also rewriting mobile apps and setting up CI/CD and release processes earlier in his career. A servant leader and educator, he launches mentorship and company-wide learning initiatives and holds a master’s in Educational Innovation and Leadership, which informs his emphasis on team growth and process design. Pragmatic, operationally fluent and curious, he moves between deep engineering ownership and coaching to turn reliability goals into measurable outcomes.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
University of St.GallenMaster's degree Educational Innovation and Leadership, Master's degree Educational Innovation and Leadership at Tallinn UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at Self-educationBachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at University of Finance and Credit
Russian, English
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Github Skills (37)
segment10
streaming10
generics6
parse-platform6
google-maps-api6
jekyll6
deserialization6
gson6
android6
google-maps6
gps6
java6
json6
react5
react-server5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
makks129/course_java
Jul 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:40 commits, 33 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
pipedrive/segment-action-destinations
Nov 2021 - Nov 2022
Action Destinations are a way to build streaming destinations on Segment.
Contributions:2 PRs, 21 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year
destinationsstreamingsegment
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