Summary
Max Wood is a Senior Frontend Developer based in Vancouver with 11 years of experience building scalable, user-focused web applications using React, TypeScript, and Next.js. He has led frontend teams and refactored legacy codebases to modern stacks, delivering measurable performance gains such as a 70% PageSpeed improvement and an 80% graph algorithm speedup. Comfortable across the stack, Max moves from requirements and architecture to deployment and maintenance, and excels in large codebases—regularly working in a 300k-line repo. Top 2% on LeetCode and a background in software and electronics engineering, he brings strong algorithms and debugging chops to UX-driven projects. Outside work he experiments with GameDev, UI/UX design and ML, and maintains a personal SPA (GymLoopy) to test new development approaches. He’s seeking teams tackling complex modern frontend challenges in fintech, biotech, or SaaS where he can both mentor and ship high-impact features.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science at Kiev Institute of Business and Technology
High School Diploma Math and Physics programming, High School Diploma Math and Physics programming at Natural Science Liceum
Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute
Ukrainian, English