Max Inden
Software Engineer at Mozilla
Germany
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Top SchoolMax Inden is a software engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in high-performance networking and cloud-native observability. He has driven core QUIC/HTTP3 UDP I/O and congestion-signal work at Mozilla and co-led the Rust implementation of libp2p at Protocol Labs, influencing peer-to-peer protocols used across distributed systems. His background spans backend, DevOps and performance engineering—contributing to Prometheus, Alertmanager, Kubernetes monitoring stacks, and blockchain networking in Parity/Polkadot. Max frequently bridges systems-level Rust development with pragmatic CI/CD and e2e testing improvements, and he has a track record of finding and fixing subtle security and cross-layer race issues. He also built automated continuous benchmarks and receive-window auto-tuning mechanisms, showing a focus on measurable performance gains. Based in Germany, he combines deep protocol design experience with hands-on operational improvements and open-source stewardship.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Information systems, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Information systems at University of MünsterInformation Systems, Information Systems at University of Agder (UiA)High School Math and English, High School Math and English at Amos Comenius Gymnasium
German, English, French, Latin, Norwegian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (87)
peer-to-peer10
testing10
rspec10
http10
bash10
terraform10
exporter10
ruby10
automation10
automation-testing10
network-protocol10
ci-cd-pipeline10
polkadot10
concurrency10
monitoring10
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
libp2p/rust-libp2p
Jul 2019 - Jan 2023
The Rust Implementation of the libp2p networking stack.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:28 releases, 2712 reviews, 326 commits in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Max's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the core functionality of the libp2p networking stack in Rust. They implemented support for DNS4 and DNS6 protocol replacements, introduced and implemented a receive identity stub for the noise protocol, and made improvements to various aspects of the code, including updating dependencies, fixing errors, and adding new features. The user also refactored the Kademlia event handling and modified the code to handle relayed connections more efficiently, improving the performance and reliability of the network.
rustp2pnetworkingpeer-to-peernetwork
prometheus/alertmanager
Mar 2017 - Jan 2020
Prometheus Alertmanager
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:12 releases, 1 review, 183 commits in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Max primarily focused on extending the Alertmanager API and integrating it with the Weaveworks mesh package for improved cluster status reporting. Their contributions include exposing mesh network status through a new API endpoint, replacing legacy connection status types, and modifying the main application file to incorporate these changes. Additionally, the user implemented the initial steps to integrate the Elm UI by replacing the static navbar in the index.html file. These updates suggest a focus on enhancing the system's functionality and improving its operational visibility while working on the UI.
opsgenieprometheus-exporterpagerdutyemaildeduplication
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