Max Meltser
Software Developer at OverDrive, Inc.
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMax Meltser is a pragmatic software developer with 10 years of experience building backend systems and integrations across .NET, Java, and mainframe technologies. Based in Cleveland, he has delivered production software at companies from uBid to OverDrive, tackling everything from ADABAS/Natural mainframe backends to modern .NET services and SQL databases. He brings low-level know-how (C, x86 assembly, JCL) alongside web and API work (.NET, ASP.NET, JavaScript), and has contributed to open-source by adding rich block message support to a .NET Slack API implementation. Max’s background in biology research and theater props signals a blend of analytical rigor and practical creativity, which he applies to designing testable, well-documented solutions.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Adlai E. Stevenson High SchoolBachelor of Arts, Computer Science, Biology, Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science, Biology at Lake Forest CollegeStevenson High School
Russian
Github Skills (10)
net10
asp-net10
dotnet10
slack-api10
api10
csharp10
apidoc10
dotnet-core10
json9
testing7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Inumedia/SlackAPI
Feb 2019 - May 2019
.NET Implementation of the Slack team communication platform API.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 5 PRs, 1 comment in 3 months
Contributions summary:Max focused on expanding the functionality of the Slack API implementation by adding support for block message types. They introduced new classes and interfaces for handling different block elements like sections, dividers, and images. The user modified existing classes to integrate these new message types, which allowed for richer and more interactive Slack messages. Tests and inheritance were also added to improve the usability of the block messages.
apidotnetapi-platformslack-teamcommunication
clockworkcoding/LibbyGraph
Dec 2022 - Jan 2025
Contributions:4 PRs, 24 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 1 month
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