Max Schoening
Product Design at Notion
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarMax Schoening is a product design leader with 12 years of experience building developer-focused products and scaling teams at companies including GitHub, Heroku, Google, and Notion. He has founded and exited startups (CloudApp, Canvas) and helped bring serverless and collaborative-wiki ideas into production, blending founder grit with product design rigor. At GitHub he steered design efforts across Codespaces, Issues, Mobile, Discussions and marketing sites while contributing to infrastructure and developer workflows. His open-source and engineering chops show in DevOps-focused contributions to community projects like Spectrum, where he automated deployments, proxying, and websocket support. Now based in San Francisco, he pairs strategic product vision with hands-on infrastructure experience and an offbeat curiosity—recently moonlighting as an aspiring olive farmer.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (14)
heroku10
nodejs10
javascript10
devops10
cicd10
dockers9
apidoc9
api9
docker9
graphql8
wpgraphql8
wordpress-graphql8
expressjs7
react4
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
withspectrum/spectrum
May 2020 - Jun 2020
Simple, powerful online communities.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Back-end Developer
DevOps Engineer & Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 18 days
Contributions summary:Max's commits primarily focus on automating deployment and managing the application's infrastructure. They implemented a script for deploying to Heroku, specifying different servers and image builds. The user also made changes related to proxying requests to the backend API using `http-proxy-middleware`, and also added websocket support. Additionally, they distinguished between web and worker processes within the deployment script.
reactrethinkdbjavascriptstyled-componentscommunities
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