Maximilian Combüchen
Staff Software Engineer at Snyk
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolMaximilian Combüchen is a Staff Software Engineer in Berlin with 10+ years of experience evolving from frontend specialist and UI/UX designer into a fullstack engineer and people manager. He blends a user-focused design sensibility with deep technical chops in TypeScript, Golang, React, Node.js, GraphQL and Docker to deliver robust, production-grade systems. At Snyk he has contributed to the CLI’s SBOM functionality and CI/CD hardening, showing an aptitude for security-adjacent tooling and backend/DevOps work beyond his frontend roots. Previously he led engineering teams at Vimcar, driving a monolith-to-micro-frontends migration while improving developer productivity and hiring processes. Colleagues rely on him to translate product needs into pragmatic architectures and to maintain team health during rapid change. He pairs craft-driven frontend intuition with backend reliability work, making him effective across the full delivery lifecycle.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Visual Communications, Visual Communications at Universität der Künste Berlin
German, English, French
Github Skills (14)
json10
command-line-interface10
vulnerability-management10
go10
command-line10
cli10
cicd9
security9
testing9
docker8
github-ci8
dockers8
githubaction-workflow8
yaml6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
snyk/cli
Aug 2022 - Aug 2022
Snyk CLI scans and monitors your projects for security vulnerabilities.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:24 reviews, 2 commits, 28 PRs in 14 days
Contributions summary:Maximilian primarily contributed to enhancing the Snyk CLI, focusing on the "sbom" (Software Bill of Materials) functionality. Their work involved upgrading dependencies, adding new features for SBOM generation (like options for yarn and python), and resolving issues related to the reliability and output format of the SBOM command. Furthermore, they implemented fixes to maintain exit codes during SBOM generation and improved the JSON output of the `sbom test` command. The user also contributed to CI/CD pipeline improvements related to building, signing and notarization of the CLI tool, alongside upgrades to the go application framework.
monitorssarifmonitorsecurity-toolsvulnerabilities
snyk/parlay
Jun 2023 - Feb 2025
Enrich SBOMs with data from third party services
Contributions:63 reviews, 57 PRs, 46 pushes in 1 year 8 months
cyclonedxsbomsbom-toolsnyk
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