Max Prettyjohns
Senior Software Engineer at tumelo
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMax Prettyjohns is a Senior Software Engineer based in Bristol with 11 years building web platforms, automation, and operational tooling. He brings hands-on expertise in Kubernetes, Elixir, Ruby on Rails and React, and currently applies that stack at tumelo after senior and lead roles at Good Sixty and Pixie Labs. His background includes back-end contributions to open-source projects like BookBrainz—where he implemented new database schemas and gamification-related tables during a Google Summer of Code–aligned effort. Comfortable spanning dev and ops, he has a track record of shipping consistent, style-conscious changes that improve maintainability as well as feature velocity. A Computer Science graduate from the University of Bristol, he pairs solid academic foundations with a practical eye for database design and system reliability. Colleagues note he often surfaces subtle consistency improvements that reduce long-term technical debt.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics Further Mathematics Chemistry, Mathematics Further Mathematics Chemistry at king henry VIII comprehensive schoolBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of Bristol
English
Github Skills (3)
postgresql10
sql10
database-design10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
metabrainz/bookbrainz-site
May 2016 - Aug 2016
BookBrainz website, written in node.js.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:343 commits, 11 PRs, 167 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Max primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the BookBrainz website, focusing on the database schema. The user implemented new database tables related to titles and achievements. These changes included adding new fields to store information about titles, achievements, and their unlocks, as well as altering existing tables. The user also made consistency and style changes.
bookbrainzreactredisnode-jsjavascript
quorauk/ma.xprettyjohns.com
Jun 2019 - May 2021
Contributions:7 releases, 38 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 11 months
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