Max Mcdonnell
Senior Systems Engineer at Cloudflare
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolMax Mcdonnell is a Senior Systems Engineer based in New York with 12 years of experience building full-stack and systems-level software across startups and scale-ups. He has held engineering leadership roles including Director of Engineering and Staff Engineer at Voltus and VP of Engineering at SHOPTHAT, and now brings that operational and architectural experience to Cloudflare. Max contributes to open source front-end projects—improving theming and build stability for react-syntax-highlighter—and built web-based terminal support for his own webtty project by integrating xterm.js and WebRTC. He blends hands-on implementation (from browser JS and WebRTC to system integration) with team leadership, shipping production features that improve developer and user experience. Colleagues know him for tackling cross-cutting problems between UX and infrastructure and for turning niche technical integrations into broadly useful tools.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bucknell UniversityHopkins School
Stackoverflow
3,615reputation
431kreached
132answers
5questions
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Github Skills (22)
javascript10
theming10
css10
xterm-js10
webrtc10
syntax-highlighting10
react10
docker9
golang9
go9
websocket8
ui-design8
prismjs8
html7
nodejs6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
maxmcd/webtty
Nov 2018 - Jan 2021
Share a terminal session over WebRTC
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 3 reviews, 43 commits in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Max implemented web support for the `webtty` project, focusing on integrating xterm.js. They added the necessary JavaScript files, HTML structure, and dependencies to enable a web-based terminal interface. Their contributions included setting up a peer connection and data channel to share and view terminal input, which required modifying the main application logic to handle the offer and answer exchange. This work directly enhanced the user experience by providing a web-based client for interacting with terminal sessions.
golangwebrtcpion-webrtcttywebrtc-experiments
react-syntax-highlighter/react-syntax-highlighter
Nov 2017 - Nov 2017
syntax highlighting component for react with prismjs or highlightjs ast using inline styles
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 5 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Max primarily focused on styling and theming aspects of the react-syntax-highlighter component. They modified existing styles to align with different themes (coy, twilight, etc.) and fixed related build and highlight issues. Furthermore, the user updated the code to utilize refractor, a different syntax highlighting library, and updated the project to support more themes.
reacthighlightasthighlightjsinline
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