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Max Proske

Professional Statement

Highly technical and service-oriented leader, with 8 years of diverse experience building web-based applications at scale. Have led teams through 3x business growth periods, by excelling at change management, talent retention, and driving dramatic growth within myself and my team. Seeking a Software Manager role to continue growing at a global, transformative, high growth company.

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Top 100
Fastest-Growing Companies in BC
2024
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Top 100
Fastest-Growing Companies in BC
2023
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Top 100
Fastest-Growing Companies in BC
2022
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Top 100
Most Profitable Companies in BC
2022
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Top 100
Fastest-Growing Companies in BC
2021
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Top 100
Fastest-Growing Companies in BC
2020
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Top 100
Most Profitable Companies in BC
2020
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Top 100
Fastest-Growing Companies in BC
2019

Work Experience

2023 – Present
Director, Software Engineering
SIX12
New Westminster, BC
  • Achieved operational autonomy within my distributed team, by establishing a strong culture of ownership, through leading by example and setting clear proactivity norms. Team size: 7.
  • Enabled the execution of over 20 projects simultaneously, without sacrificing quality, through building effective cross-functional structures, and meticulously optimizing each project phase.
  • Ranked Top 20 Fastest-Growing Company in BC, by enabling the CEO to focus on business growth and external challenges, through taking responsibility for internal and technical strategy.
2021 – 2023
Manager, Software Engineering
SIX12
New Westminster, BC
  • Hired and mentored 3 engineers to senior roles, by creating personalized career plans aimed at rapid internal progression through regular 1-on-1s and targeted assignments. Team size: 4.
  • Delivered a key project in less than six weeks that kick-started a long-term relationship, drove market competitiveness, and resulted in 240% revenue growth from $1M to $3.4M ARR.
  • Established and matured processes in hiring, QA, performance reviews, and operational readiness for safely launching new products and features.
  • Introduced an incident response plan as Information Security Lead, matured postmortem processes, and established cloud redundancy to ensure business continuity during outages.
2020 – 2021
Senior Full Stack Developer
SIX12
New Westminster, BC
  • Kept infrastructure cost under 1% of revenue, by carefully monitoring and designing lean services.
  • Increased project delivery speed by 98% and eliminated siloing, by migrating all products from PHP/JavaScript to a unified, cloud-native TypeScript stack on managed DigitalOcean services.
2016 – 2020
Full Stack Developer
SIX12
New Westminster, BC
  • Led the development of a high-volume SMS shortcode API crucial for customer engagement; managing 100K-1M daily text messages, and achieved near 100% uptime over 8 years.

Education

2018
B.Sc. Interactive Systems
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, BC

Volunteering & Awards

2023 – Present
Docker Captain
Docker
docker.com
  • Awarded for community expertise in containerization and conference speaking; 2nd recipient in Canada. Actively helping Docker Product teams shape products prior to general availability.
2012 – Present
Lead Developer
Flash Flash Revolution
flashflashrevolution.com
  • Leading an open sourced a long-term, multiplayer game project with 1K daily active players.

Leadership Skills


  • Talent retention, Performance coaching
  • Process building and optimization
  • Scaling Product-Design-Engineering triads
  • Turning technical visions into detailed plans using Agile and Waterfall methodologies
  • Capable, confident and personable demeanor, with strong interpersonal skills

Engineering Skills


  • TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Next.js, Node.js, PHP, Golang
  • Docker, Compose, Kubernetes
  • DevOps best practices, GitHub Actions
  • Postgres, MySQL, Redis
  • Code review, Tech debt management
  • Cloud & Web Application Security
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