Max Gooding
Principal Software Developer at Self-employed
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMax Gooding is a Principal Software Developer with over a decade of experience building and scaling products in startup environments, most recently leading engineering at Neo Financial and now self-employed. He combines hands-on coding with deep attention to infrastructure and architecture, believing that successful delivery hinges on tooling, team collaboration, and ownership of outcomes. His background includes leading teams at SkipTheDishes where he helped shape production systems early in his career, and later driving cross-functional engineering at Neo. Based in Calgary, he brings a practical, startup-minded approach to trade-offs between speed and reliability. Colleagues describe him as a developer who mentors peers and cares as much about project success as implementation details. He pairs a B.Sc. in Computer Science with a decade of production experience, making him comfortable across the full stack and systems that operate at scale.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science at University of Saskatchewan
English
Github Skills (22)
eslint-config9
scalars8
aws-secrets-manager7
nodejs7
javascript7
typescript6
graphql5
configuration-management5
assume-role5
datetime5
apollo4
gateway4
eslint4
aws3
cli3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
neofinancial/neo-stack-pack
Jun 2020 - Oct 2021
Extension pack used by Neo Financial Developers
Contributions:11 commits, 2 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year 4 months
financialextension-packneopack
MaxGoo/graphql-base-resolvers
Oct 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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