Max Woolf
Staff Backend Engineer, API at GitLab
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMax Woolf is a Staff Backend Engineer with 14 years in software, currently shaping APIs at GitLab after progressing through analytics and compliance backend roles. A Ruby on Rails expert and product-minded engineer, he has a strong track record building resilient cloud infrastructure and mission-critical healthcare systems at Substrakt Health. He blends startup founder experience (GraphHost) with enterprise-scale engineering, shipping scalable services and improving observability and reliability across teams. Based in Birmingham, he pairs technical leadership with civic commitment—serving as a charity trustee, mentor and school governor—and deliberately avoids work in gambling and defense. An unusual mix of music informatics education and long-term Rails focus gives him both creative perspective and deep practical expertise.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Music Informatics Music Computer Science, Music Informatics Music Computer Science at University of SussexA Level Music, A Level Music at Birmingham City UniversityA Level Computing Maths Music Technology, A Level Computing Maths Music Technology at King's Norton Boys' School
English
Stackoverflow
4,048reputation
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84answers
24questions
heroku
top-5%
vagrant
top-5%
ruby-on-rails
top-5%
Github Skills (114)
ruby10
heroku10
embedded10
database-management10
cpp10
cloud-native10
sidekiq10
sql10
ai10
html10
rust10
database10
git10
ruby-wrapper10
background-processing10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
substrakt/letsencrypt-heroku
Jul 2016 - Mar 2017
Make any Heroku application secure in just a couple of minutes.
Contributions:8 releases, 17 commits, 23 PRs in 8 months
herokussl-certificatesheroku-applicationcloudflareruby
maxehmookau/neo4j-ansible
Jan 2014 - Jan 2015
Contributions:13 commits, 3 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 year
bootingneo4j-graphansibleneo4j-graph-databasedatabase-system
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