Max Gurela
Senior Software Engineer at ServiceMax
Dublin, California, United States
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Top SchoolMax Gurela is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building production software at ServiceMax, where he moved from intern to senior engineer and continues to drive product development from Dublin, California. He specializes in modern JavaScript ecosystems—React and React Native—while maintaining strong backend chops in Java, enabling him to span front-end and server-side concerns. Max contributes to open-source projects such as the well-regarded Sopel IRC bot framework, where he implemented time-management and channel administration features and fixed protocol edge cases. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he focuses on shipping consistent, user-facing functionality and resolving subtle bugs that improve developer and user experience. Colleagues appreciate his steady engineering presence and ability to translate operational issues into durable code.
13 years of coding experience
NAIT (Northern Alberta Institute of Technology)
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (7)
time-management10
irc-bot10
irc10
python10
implement10
irc-bot-framework10
command-line10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
sopel-irc/sopel
Nov 2014 - Aug 2016
:robot::speech_balloon: An easy-to-use and highly extensible IRC Bot framework. Formerly Willie.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:82 commits, 75 PRs, 50 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Max primarily contributed to the Sopel IRC bot framework by implementing and refining core functionality related to time management and channel administration. Their work included adding new commands for time zone and format settings, fixing unclear messages, and ensuring command consistency. They also addressed bug fixes related to CTCP-IRCv3 intent conversion and provided various other general bug fixes.
irc-bot-frameworkpythonircirc-bot
maxpowa/sopel-lua
Oct 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:18 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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