Max Kuchin
Senior Software Engineer at Canva
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolMax Kuchin is a Senior Software Engineer based in Sydney with over a decade of hands-on experience building and maintaining mission-critical Java/J2EE systems. He combines a strong algorithms and mathematics background with a Sun Certified Java SE 5 credential and deep expertise across Spring, Hibernate, multithreading, XML, and enterprise servers. His career spans startups and large organisations—co-founding Devspire and delivering production systems at Nuix, Optus, BIG W and now Canva—bringing both entrepreneurial grit and enterprise-grade engineering. Comfortable across the full stack, he pairs backend and database fluency (Oracle, PL/SQL, MySQL) with practical web and tooling experience (AJAX, IntelliJ, Ant, CI/version control). Known for reliability and maintainability, he has repeatedly taken ownership of complex integration points and performance-sensitive features. A mathematician by training, he often applies analytical rigor to system design and problem solving beyond typical implementation work.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Mathematics and computer science, Bachelor Mathematics and computer science at Orenburg State Pedagogical University (OSPU)
English, Russian
Github Skills (45)
docker10
docker-registry10
jekyll10
jekyll-theme10
grails9
python9
infrastructure9
remote-execution8
zeromq8
salt8
groovy8
scale8
iot8
automated-build8
configuration-management8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
mkuchin/docker-registry-web
Sep 2015 - Oct 2016
Web UI for private docker registry v2
Contributions:10 releases, 212 commits, 11 PRs in 1 year 1 month
docker-registry-v2dockerweb-uidocker-registry
mkuchin/docker-test
Sep 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:6 releases, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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