Max Kless
Senior Software Engineer (L4) at Nx
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolMax Kless is a Senior Software Engineer with 8 years of experience, currently working on Nx Core, Nx Console and Nx MCP from Munich, Germany. He focuses on developer tooling and TypeScript, combining full‑stack and front‑end expertise to improve UX for monorepo workflows and VS Code integrations. At Nx he has shipped UI and editor integrations, versioned dependency tooling, and features that bridge the CLI and IDE experience, while earlier work at Intershop sharpened his skills in large Angular codebases, CI/CD and PWA development. An active open‑source contributor, Max has improved docs, examples and build tooling for projects like ngx-formly and driven quality-focused refactors across Nx repositories. Colleagues would describe him as pragmatic and detail-oriented, with a knack for turning developer pain points into polished tooling and documentation.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 1,7, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 1,7 at Friedrich Schiller University Jena
German, English
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Github Skills (27)
nxos10
javascript10
lerna10
typescript10
ui-design10
vscode-extension10
uid10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
react10
documentation10
angular10
nextjs9
bootstra8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
nrwl/nx-console
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
Nx Console is the user interface for Nx & Lerna.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:178 reviews, 87 commits, 919 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Max contributed to the implementation of the Nx Console user interface for Nx & Lerna. Their work included adding new features like a help & feedback view, which involved creating new components and integrating them into the VS Code extension. They also refactored and moved TypeScript plugin projects into the VS Code folder, which signifies the user's focus on the front-end development and integrating the extension. Furthermore, the user added dependency functionality with version selection.
user-interfacereactmonorepoconsoledeveloper-tools
ngx-formly/ngx-formly
Dec 2020 - Aug 2022
📝 JSON powered / Dynamic forms for Angular
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 17 commits, 23 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Max primarily focused on improving documentation and examples within the ngx-formly repository. Their contributions include removing unnecessary labels in demo examples, correcting typos, and adding guides and examples related to custom extensions and field types. They updated the build script for Windows and refactored code to remove experimental markers, showing an effort towards code quality and maintainability.
ng-zorrobootstrapmaterialjson-schemakendo-ui
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