Max Ignatenko

Dublin, Dublin 1, Ireland

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Max Ignatenko is an experienced Site Reliability Engineer with 17 years building and hardening large-scale systems, most recently across multiple SRE teams at Google. He blends deep systems and embedded-systems expertise—contributing to projects from FreeBSD pkg tooling to IoT firmware (Mongoose OS) and high-performance networking libraries like cesanta/fossa. Max’s back-end focus includes protocol-level work on messaging platforms (ejabberd) and careful improvements to security and package integrity, reflecting a strong emphasis on reliability and maintainability. Based in Dublin, he pairs academic training in programming, statistics and economics with practical chops in C/C++ and low-level system APIs, and is comfortable straddling production ops and hands-on code contributions. He often surfaces non-obvious fixes—race, refactor and API-cleanup work—that reduce future toil while improving observability and correctness.

17 years of coding experience

5 years of employment as a software developer

Programming, Statistics, Economics, Programming, Statistics, Economics at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv

English, Ukrainian

Github Skills (48)

xmpp10

javascript10

c-language10

erlang10

messaging10

package-management10

apidoc10

freebsd10

http10

c1110

networking10

c1710

i2c10

chat10

api10

Programming languages (20)

C#JavaC++CSSCRustM4Go

Github contributions (5)

cesanta/mongoose-os

Apr 2015 - Apr 2016

Mongoose OS - an IoT Firmware Development Framework. Supported microcontrollers: ESP32, ESP8266, CC3220, CC3200, STM32F4, STM32L4, STM32F7. Amazon AWS IoT, Microsoft Azure, Google IoT Core integrated. Code in C or JavaScript.

Role in this project:

Back-end Developer & Embedded Systems Engineer

Contributions:3 releases, 83 commits, 1 PR in 1 year

Contributions summary:Max contributed to the Mongoose OS framework, demonstrating skills in embedded systems and back-end development. They added a 'format' target, indicating work on code style and build processes. The user added and modified C code related to socket and crypto APIs, which are crucial for the device's functionality. Furthermore, the user added high-level I2C API support, suggesting involvement in hardware communication and control.

google-iot-coreiot-platformawsmicrosoftmongoose

cesanta/v7

Mar 2015 - Oct 2015

Embedded JavaScript engine for C/C++

Role in this project:

Back-end Developer

Contributions:18 commits, 11 PRs, 19 pushes in 6 months

Contributions summary:Max primarily focused on enhancing the embedded JavaScript engine. Their contributions involved refactoring code, specifically moving the OS file interface into a separate file, and adding OS rename and uname methods. Furthermore, they updated the code by dropping the num_args argument from set_cfunc_obj_prop and adapting the OS interface to use the new method, while also porting the older Crypto interface to the new API.

javascript-enginecppjavascriptembeddedembedded-javascript

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