Max Tottenham
Principal Lead Software Engineer at Akamai Technologies
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMax Tottenham is a Principal Lead Software Engineer based in London with 14 years’ experience building and optimising low-level systems for large-scale production environments. He has deep expertise in Linux kernel networking, virtualization, UEFI/TPM secure boot, and performance engineering from repeated senior roles at Akamai and a low-latency C++ stint at Squarepoint Capital. Max combines hands-on systems development—bootloader and OS customization, kernel subsystems and tooling—with leadership in debugging and developer enablement across distributed platforms. An open-source-minded engineer, he balances practical infrastructure work with contributions and maintenance of custom open-source modifications, and brings a background in rigorous engineering from Imperial College London. Notably, his career blends theatre-era operational discipline with high-stakes platform reliability work, reflecting both meticulous execution and a taste for complex, hardware-adjacent problems.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Alleyns SchoolBachelor of Engineering (BEng) Computing, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Computing at Imperial College London
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Github Skills (38)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mtottenh/tottenham.io
Jul 2017 - Sep 2023
Contributions:4 PRs, 24 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 3 months
mtottenh/xv6
May 2016 - Nov 2019
Contributions:8 pushes, 3 branches, 1 tag in 3 years 6 months
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