Max Sokolovsky
Engineer III - Threat Detection
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMax Sokolovsky is an Engineer III specializing in threat detection with a decade of experience building secure, cloud-native systems and automation. Based in New York, he has deep Kubernetes and backend expertise from contributing core functionality to Rancher at SUSE—working on virtual clusters, multicluster controllers, webhooks, RBAC and auth integrations—and helped improve build and deployment tooling for that widely used container management platform. Prior roles include designing serverless backend services, ephemeral credential and certificate generation, and Encryption-as-a-Service at Thycotic, demonstrating a strong security-first mindset across infrastructure and application layers. He combines hands-on DevOps and backend skills with practical production experience in search, data warehousing, and real-time systems from earlier positions, making him adept at turning complex security requirements into reliable, automated solutions. An engineer who moves between application logic, Kubernetes primitives, and CI/CD build automation, he brings rare cross-cutting fluency that accelerates secure platform delivery.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at State University of New York at Oswego
Spanish, German, English, Russian
Github Skills (12)
kubernetes10
docker10
go10
helm10
dockers10
kubernetes-pods10
container9
orchestration9
orchestra9
cicd8
catalog8
python4
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
rancher/rancher
Sep 2021 - Jan 2023
Complete container management platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:532 reviews, 108 commits, 189 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Max contributed to the core functionality of the Rancher platform by implementing features related to catalog template version handling, namespace secret management, and Helm chart revisioning. They also worked on improving the build process by replacing a downloaded K3s binary with a Docker image and updating Docker dependencies. Furthermore, the user made changes to resource quota handling, optimizing container limits propagation in the absence of project resource quotas.
containersorchestrationdockerrancherkubernetes
maxsokolovsky/rancher
Sep 2021 - Oct 2024
Complete container management platform
Contributions:502 pushes, 134 branches in 3 years 1 month
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