Max Grinberg
Fullstack Engineer at FLIZpay
Katavi Region, Germany
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolMax Grinberg is a software engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building scalable backend systems, DevOps pipelines, and full-stack applications across startups, fintech, and defense sectors. He has led payment and wallet engineering at Tweed, owned Terraform/EKS-based deployments, and delivered B2B cloud and on-prem systems at Bank Leumi, demonstrating strong ownership from design through production. Comfortable in small agile teams, he combines practical DevOps expertise with backend craftsmanship and a history of mentoring and leading small teams. An active open-source contributor, he improved reliability in the widely-used StevenBlack/hosts project by hardening update and download logic. Based in Germany’s Katavi Region, he brings a pragmatic, reliability-first approach to shipping resilient systems in fast-paced environments.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
2018, 2018 at ORT Colleges
Stackoverflow
3reputation
246reached
1answer
1question
Github Skills (11)
system-administration10
error-handling10
python10
networking9
testing8
security8
vbnet6
privacy6
bash6
graphic6
adblock5
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
StevenBlack/hosts
Jul 2020 - Jul 2020
🔒 Consolidating and extending hosts files from several well-curated sources. Optionally pick extensions for porn, social media, and other categories.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:9 commits, 7 PRs, 4 comments in 3 days
Contributions summary:Max primarily focused on improving the reliability and robustness of the `hosts` file update process. Their contributions include fixing bugs related to service restarts, implementing and then reverting a network connectivity check, and retrying file downloads from URLs to handle potential network issues. They also made improvements to code by using more modern Python practices, such as using the `with` statement.
hosts-filepythonunified-hostsmalwaread-blocker
codeswhite/proxion
Sep 2018 - Jul 2021
Automated multi-threaded proxy checker with uptime and latency statistics
Contributions:40 commits, 1 PR, 18 pushes in 2 years 10 months
proxy-checkerstatisticspenetration-testing-toolsproxiesproxy-list
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.