Max Renke
Senior Engineering Technical Program Manager, Infrastructure & Security at Okta
Monroe, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMax Renke is a Senior Engineering Technical Program Manager specializing in infrastructure and security with 11 years of hands-on experience driving secure product delivery at scale. Currently at Okta after a multi-year tenure at Microsoft, he has led defenses for cloud-critical infrastructure, mitigated nation-state attacks on Azure assets, and translated offensive security findings into business-risk decisions. He thrives on deep technical involvement—conducting design audits, manual code reviews, and vulnerability discovery—while also building automated tooling to scale offensive security teams. Max has intimate familiarity with host OS and kernel security, virtualization-based defenses, and enforcing SDL across large engineering organizations. He combines program leadership with practical engineering chops, having built automated test tooling earlier in his career and even winning a security Capture the Flag event. Based in Monroe, Washington, he balances cross-disciplinary influence with a preference for staying close to the technical work.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Budapest University of Technology and EconomicsMaster’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at University of New Hampshire
Github Skills (9)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
maxrenke/maxrenke.github.io
Dec 2017 - Feb 2025
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 3 months
maxrenke/twitch_viewer
May 2016 - Feb 2019
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
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