Summary
Max 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.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor Mathematics and computer science, Bachelor Mathematics and computer science at Orenburg State Pedagogical University (OSPU)
English, Russian