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Max Proske

Professional Statement

Hands-on engineering leader and Docker Captain with 10+ years of experience scaling secure web apps for millions of users, and 5+ years building high-performing teams. Player-coach, passionate about driving dramatic growth within myself and my team 1% every day. Seeking an EM role to continue growing at a customer-obsessed, multi-product 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 of Software Engineering
SIX12
New Westminster, BC
  • Delivered a 2.0 loyalty platform from concept to 5 million users, securing a long-term partnership with a Fortune 500 company, boosting ARR 240% from $1M to $3.4M.
  • Eliminated 8 hours of manual work per week for 3 non-engineering staff by spearheading the practice of reusable, Claude-driven workflows, through tailored 1:1 enablement sessions.
  • Achieved operational autonomy within my fully remote team by establishing a culture of ownership, through setting clear innovation and AI proactivity norms. Team size: 4 SDEs, 2 PMs.
  • Enabled 15 concurrent project deliveries with zero incidents, through optimizing each cross-functional phase of the software development life cycle.
  • Ranked Top 20 Fastest-Growing companies in BC, by enabling the CEO to focus on business development, through taking responsibility for all technical strategy. 2 new clients signed.
2021 – 2023
Software Engineering Manager
SIX12
New Westminster, BC
  • Hired and mentored 3 engineers from junior to senior roles with 0% attrition, by creating personalized career plans aimed at rapid ownership progression and trust. Team size: 3 SDEs.
  • Cut engineer onboarding by 6 weeks, through a streamlined security bootcamp and local-stack setup, and enabled new hires to ship their first PR within 2 days.
  • Designed and implemented incident response plan and multi-cloud redundancy to reduce operational risk and ensure business continuity.
2020 – 2021
Senior Full Stack Engineer
SIX12
New Westminster, BC
  • Kept infrastructure costs below 1% of revenue while supporting 174% user growth YoY, by establishing a competitive culture of lean service design and cloud resource monitoring.
  • Accelerated project delivery by 2x through migrating all products from legacy PHP/JS to a unified Next.js TypeScript stack with feature flags on managed cloud services.
2016 – 2020
Full Stack Engineer
SIX12
New Westminster, BC
  • Architected and built a high-throughput, resilient SMS API into a core monetization channel, processing 100 million+ text messages with 99.995% availability over 10 years.

Education

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

Volunteering & Awards

2023 – Present
Docker Captain
Docker
docker.com
  • 2nd recipient in Canada. Advise Docker product teams pre-GA. Conference speaker.
2012 – Present
Lead Maintainer
Flash Flash Revolution
flashflashrevolution.com
  • Longest running online rhythm game (2M users since 2002).

Leadership Skills


  • Driving process change & org-wide adoption
  • Talent retention & performance coaching
  • Scaling Product-Design-Engineering triads
  • Turning technical visions into workback schedules using agile & waterfall
  • Capable, confident and personable demeanor, with strong interpersonal skills

Engineering Skills


  • Languages: TypeScript, React/Next.js, Go, PHP
  • DevOps: Docker, Kubernetes, AWS (EKS, Lambda, RDS), DigitalOcean, CI/CD with GitHub Actions, OpenTelemetry, Terraform
  • Databases: Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis
  • Security: Audits, cloud, web app, pen testing
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