Max Holman
Software Engineer at Wise
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMax Holman is a software engineer with 11 years of experience and 4+ years focused on building high-performance, distributed systems for live-service games using Kotlin, Java, and Spring. He has repeatedly modernised legacy architectures into scalable, sprint-driven microservices, driving measurable wins in player retention and revenue while enabling non-engineers to ship gameplay through a visual scripting framework. Max excels in fast-paced, high-impact environments where he turns complexity into clear, operable systems and shortens feature delivery from months to days. His work spans backend engineering and observability—implementing Prometheus/Grafana pipelines and Redis caching to unlock horizontal scaling for concurrent users. An active open-source contributor, he has improved Ethereum tooling in the web3dart library by enhancing transaction handling and ABI decoding. Based in London with a mathematics background from Durham University, he blends analytical rigor with practical product-focused engineering.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma of Higher Education, Mathematics, Diploma of Higher Education, Mathematics at Durham University
Github Skills (6)
dart10
web3js10
ethereum10
blockchain10
apidoc9
api9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
simolus3/web3dart
Nov 2018 - Nov 2018
Ethereum library, written in Dart.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 3 PRs, 4 comments in 11 days
Contributions summary:Max primarily focused on enhancing the `web3dart` library. Their contributions included adding support for specifying the `chainId` in transactions, improving the typing of return values from the `call()` function, and refining the handling of contract ABIs, functions, and return value decoding. They also added the `getTransactionByHash` function to retrieve transaction information. These changes demonstrate a focus on improving the library's core functionality and usability for interacting with Ethereum.
dartethereum
nulllines/debug3
Jun 2017 - Dec 2019
a tiny debugging wrapper on top of `debug` to improve performance - https://www.npmjs.com/package/debug3
Contributions:38 PRs, 28 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 7 months
tinyloggingnpmjsdebuggingperformance
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