Max Ivak
Lead Software Engineer at Vericatch
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolMax Ivak is a lead software engineer based in Vancouver with 14 years of professional experience and nearly two decades building web and SaaS products, specializing in Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, and performance optimization. He has led architecture and full lifecycle delivery across startups and scale-up teams, pairing hands-on development with DevOps expertise (Docker, Chef, Ansible, Terraform) and experience with search and streaming stacks like Elasticsearch and Kafka. At companies from Vericatch to Galactic Exchange he built APIs, provisioning/job-processing systems, and clusterized deployments, and maintains several open-source gems and tooling on GitHub that support Rails and backup workflows. With a Ph.D. in radiophysics, he brings a strong quantitative and systems-thinking background that informs pragmatic infrastructure and analytics decisions.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Radiophysics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Radiophysics at O.Ya. Usikov Institute for Radiophysics and Electronics National Academy of Sciences of UkraineMaster, Math, Physics, Master, Math, Physics at V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (110)
duplicate9
autocomplete9
ancestry9
typeahead9
simpleform9
golang8
sortable8
ruby8
docker8
bootstrap8
rails8
ruby-wrapper8
jquery-plugin7
mvc7
ruby-on-rails7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
maxivak/bootstrap3_autocomplete_input
Dec 2014 - Mar 2018
Contributions:53 commits, 2 PRs, 25 pushes in 3 years 3 months
bootstrap4bootstrap-3railstypeaheadsimpleform
maxivak/rails-base-app
Jun 2015 - Dec 2018
Contributions:91 pushes, 14 branches in 3 years 6 months
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