Max Schwenk
Staff Software Engineer at Lattice
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolMax Schwenk is a Staff Software Engineer in Atlanta with 14 years building full-stack web applications, currently focused on Ruby and JavaScript ecosystems like Rails and React. He blends hands-on feature delivery with security-minded back-end work—evidenced by contributions to HashiCorp's official Vault Ruby client where he improved AWS IAM authentication and metadata integrations. At Lattice and previously at Bugcrowd and JPMorgan, he’s advanced from application developer to staff-level engineering, shipping asset-management and build-tool improvements such as image_pack_tag work in rails/webpacker. Known on GitHub as a "Professional Pull Requester," he favors pragmatic, maintainable solutions over a laundry list of technologies and keeps code quality and secure integrations front and center.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Packer Collegiate Institute (high school)Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Syracuse University L.C. Smith College of Engineering
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (26)
ruby-rails10
javascript10
apidoc10
authentication10
user-authentication10
rails10
webpack10
ruby10
api10
aws10
webpacker10
ias10
json9
security9
babel69
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
rails/webpacker
Dec 2017 - Feb 2019
Use Webpack to manage app-like JavaScript modules in Rails
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 9 PRs, 37 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Max contributed to the `webpacker` project by implementing and modifying helper functions for image packs. They added the `image_pack_tag` helper and made changes to integrate resolved paths into the build process. Furthermore, they corrected a typo in a React Babel configuration file and included resolved paths in the app-code Babel compilation. The contributions demonstrate an understanding of both front-end asset management and back-end configuration within a Rails application.
javascriptrailswebpackyarnfrontend
hashicorp/vault-ruby
Nov 2017 - Feb 2018
The official Ruby client for HashiCorp's Vault
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:25 commits, 6 PRs, 14 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Max primarily focused on enhancing the AWS IAM authentication functionality within the Vault Ruby client. Their work involved implementing AWS EC2 and ECS authentication methods, integrating with the AWS Instance Metadata Service and ECS container metadata. They also addressed security concerns by making the IAM server ID header optional and incorporating STS endpoints and credential providers, culminating in significant enhancements to the Vault client's AWS authentication capabilities.
hashicorpruby-clientvault
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