Max Veytsman
Co-Founder at 1RG Labs
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMax Veytsman is a seasoned software engineer and entrepreneur with 14 years of experience building secure, production-grade systems and founding multiple ventures, including Appcanary (acquired by GitHub) and community-focused 1RG Labs and 1RG Space. He has deep expertise in security, dependency management, and developer tooling from his time at GitHub working on Vulnerable Dependency alerts, the Advisory Database, Dependency Graph, and CodeQL-powered code scanning. Max blends full-stack engineering—contributing to high-profile open-source projects like Phoenix and Phoenix LiveView—with QA and test automation work on critical security repositories such as ruby-advisory-db. As founding engineer at The Bike Brigade he leads the development of an open-source dispatch platform, showing a streak for mission-driven, community-oriented tech. Known for spotting subtle edge cases in testing and for pragmatic migrations (e.g., esbuild adoption), he pairs technical rigor with product-minded execution. Based in Toronto, he combines startup grit, security-first thinking, and sustained open-source contribution.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
S15, S15 at Y CombinatorBSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at University of TorontoS14, S14 at Recurse Center
English, Russian
Github Skills (14)
testing10
rspec10
dom-manipulation10
web-framework10
javascript10
phoenix-liveview10
phoenix-framework10
elixir10
liveview10
ruby10
esbuild9
front-end-development9
yaml8
api-server8
Programming languages (27)
Github contributions (5)
rubysec/ruby-advisory-db
Feb 2013 - Jan 2018
A database of vulnerable Ruby Gems
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:86 commits, 36 PRs, 34 pushes in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Max primarily contributed to improving the quality and robustness of the `ruby-advisory-db` project by modifying and updating the existing test suite. Their work focused on adapting the tests to align with schema changes, incorporating new fields like `platform`, `date`, and `cvss_v3`, and allowing for edge cases such as empty patched versions. They also fixed a bug related to OSVDB ID filename checks, showcasing their understanding of the testing process.
databaserubygemsrubysecadvisory-filesyaml
phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view
Jul 2020 - Nov 2022
Rich, real-time user experiences with server-rendered HTML
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:11 reviews, 30 commits, 34 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Max primarily contributed to the testing and refinement of the Phoenix LiveView framework. Their work involved fixing bugs in DOM patching, enhancing the test suite, and adding tests to identify and prevent memory leaks. They also refactored code, particularly the `cleanChildNodes` and `appendPrependUpdates` functions, and addressed issues with form handling and event binding, demonstrating a strong focus on improving the framework's performance and reliability.
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