Maxim Karvonen
Lead Software Developer at Waratek
Ireland
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Top SchoolMaxim Karvonen is a Lead Software Developer with 14 years of experience designing and delivering robust, maintainable systems across startups and enterprise environments from Yandex to Pitney Bowes and Waratek. He excels at owning the full software lifecycle—requirements, team coordination, architecture, CI/CD and production operations—while prioritizing design choices that minimize mid-to-long-term cost of ownership in dynamic markets. His hands-on background spans backend systems, DI and validation frameworks, workflow engines, real-time notifications, and nuanced serialization fixes in open-source projects like the Redmine Java API. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architecture that isolates key moving parts early, enabling faster adaptation to changing business needs. Based in Ireland and trained in mathematics and systems programming at Moscow State University, he combines formal rigor with practical product sensibility. An often-overlooked strength is his consistent focus on rising engineering capability—mentoring peers and improving team practices as part of delivery.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Специалист, Математика и системное программирование, 4.9/5, Специалист, Математика и системное программирование, 4.9/5 at Moscow State University
Русский, English
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Github Skills (19)
json10
apidoc10
redmine-api10
java10
javas10
api10
testing9
docker8
githubaction-workflow8
dockers8
github-ci8
deadlock6
collections6
joda-time6
boinc6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
taskadapter/redmine-java-api
May 2012 - Apr 2013
Redmine Java API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:82 commits, 1 PR, 1 branch in 11 months
Contributions summary:Maxim primarily focused on improving the Redmine Java API. Their contributions involved refactoring and fixing imports, addressing warnings, and enhancing serialization/deserialization processes within the project. They also worked on setting up and maintaining the CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions and Docker and added a test to upload attachments on Redmine. In addition, the user implemented functionalities such as adding user to group, and handling with journal details.
javaapijava-apiredmine
maxkar/corelib-scala
Aug 2021 - Jan 2025
Some small general-purpose libraries
Contributions:32 PRs, 66 pushes, 33 branches in 3 years 5 months
scalageneral-purposepurpose
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