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Max Polinka
Software engineer

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Profile

Software engineer with 5+ years of experience building production interfaces in React, Next.js, and Angular for enterprise observability and compliance systems, as well as AI-powered products and workflows. Specializes in complex data visualization (d3.js heatmaps, social graphs) and scalable frontend architecture. Founding engineer at a generative AI startup; MIT Emerging Talent

Experience

Jan 2026 - present
Ketch

Software Engineer

Data privacy and consent management platform designed to help enterprises automate compliance, governance, and user preference controls across digital properties

Tech Stack: React, Redux, Context API, Tailwind CSS, CSS/SCSS, JavaScript/TypeScript, Material UI, Git

  • Built and refined frontend features for consent preferences, communication settings and subscription management dashboards, leveraging AI-assisted development to accelerate feature delivery and iteration cycles
  • Implemented reusable UI components using Material UI and the company’s internal design system to ensure consistency, accessibility, and faster feature delivery
  • Developed complex tables and analytics views with filtering, sorting, and pagination to support large-scale user and identifier datasets
  • Contributed to the company’s internal UI library, extending the library and improving standardization across the project
Jul 2024 - Jan 2026
Kloudfuse

Software Engineer

Observability platform designed to scale efficiently and cost-effectively, empowering organizations to gain actionable insights and optimize their systems' performance

Tech Stack: React, d3.js, JavaScript/TypeScript, CSS/SCSS, Tailwind CSS, HTML, Git

  • Implemented comprehensive error handling and display across the platform to improve issue tracking
  • Leveraged AI tools to accelerate frontend development and debugging of complex visualization features
  • Developed an interactive d3.js-based heatmap for visualizing latency distribution, enhancing data insights and system monitoring
  • Added UI components for managing integration connections (e.g., Kubernetes, AWS), improving user experience and ease of configuration
  • Built RBAC interfaces for managing users, groups, policies, and folder permissions, improving security and admin workflows
Jun 2023 - Jul 2024
PipeIQ

Founding Software Engineer

A Generative AI startup targeting marketing and sales use cases

Tech Stack: Next.js, JavaScript/TypeScript, CSS/SCSS, Tailwind CSS, HTML, Git

  • Developed UI integration components for Hubspot, Salesforce, Zoom, Calendly, Gong platforms and configured the connection process
  • Built a social graph with d3.js for visual tracking of company leads
  • Configured routing and state management of data between the application pages using Next.js
  • Coached junior team members on project structure implementation & scalability, and ensured consistency across application modules
  • Added Redux and ReduxPersist to the project to optimize data management and persist data across reloads
  • Configured AWS Gateway API lambda functions and S3 Bucket resources
  • Developed a custom chat interface leveraging WebSocket technology for real-time communication with the ChatGPT model, ensuring smooth and responsive user interactions
Feb 2023 - Jun 2023
ProgramEquity
(contract)

Software engineer

501c3 nonprofit that connects tech workers to skill-based volunteering workflows on open source climate tech projects

Tech Stack: Next.js, JavaScript/TypeScript, CSS/SCSS, HTML, Git

  • Built a Next.js platform to track participant performance and measure contributor effectiveness in open-source workflows
  • Integrated GitHub PR metrics display via Probot, providing real-time visibility into participant contributions
  • Collected feedback from past hackpod cohorts and optimized platform performance
Sep 2021 - June 2022
Ava.codes

Software engineer

Fast-growing software engineer outstaffing company, serving clients like Shopify & TraceSafe

Tech Stack: Angular 2+, NgRx, RxJS, ngx-charts, JavaScript/TypeScript, CSS/SCSS, HTML, Git

  • Designed and implemented a novel feature for website video uploading and viewing for a US employee upskilling software company (SkillDirector ), meeting detailed client UI specs and using complex backend-based routing logic, which increased user engagement by 30%.
  • Implemented an organizational system for NgRx functions that sped up new feature implementation by 20%, enhancing the overall performance and efficiency of the system
  • Implemented a feature for KPI visual projection for a shop-floor management software company in Germany (SFM Systems ), using ngx-charts library
  • Created a vast collection of framework agnostic web components of the US payments software company (ACHQ ), such as navigation, page and panel components, form elements, e.g. drop-downs, using JS code injection to extend the capabilities of the development environment
June 2020 - Aug 2021
Javatar
(part-time)

Intern / Software engineer

English tutoring software startup founded by ex-Pitchbook & ex-Luxoft senior engineer

Tech Stack: Angular 2+, RxJS, JavaScript/TypeScript, CSS/SCSS, HTML, Git

  • Led upgrades to the latest versions of the build and development tools across all frontend projects, such as Angular, RxJs, NgRx increasing the efficiency of the build and development process by 25%. Implemented ESLint support and Git pre-commit hooks to enhance code quality and maintain consistency throughout the projects
  • Spearheaded the update of a suboptimal routing approach for 8 application modules to enable faster feature implementations: redefined the module structure, deleted redundancies and combined application compotents into a simplified routing sytem
  • Created pixel-perfect complex UI for the product and added interactivity, e.g. rich forms, carousel views, dynamic user input visualization
  • Implemented reactive forms validation for student/tutor interaction, set up page component routing

Professional Skills

Languages: JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS/SCSS

Frameworks: React, Next.js, Angular 2+, Redux, NgRx, RxJS

UI & Styling: Material UI, Tailwind CSS, ngx-charts

Visualization: d3.js

Tools: Git, Figma, ESLint, Webflow, Antora

Cloud: WebSockets, AWS (API Gateway, Lambda, S3)

Interests

Education

  • Sep 2023 - Jun 2024 polish flag

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge

    MIT Emerging Talent, Certificate Program in Computer and Data Science

    Extracurriculars: GMI (Global Mentorship Initiative) Career Readiness Mentorship Program

  • Fall 2022 polish flag

    Vistula University, Poland

    MS in Computer Engineering at Vistula University, Poland

    Extracurriculars: React Basics (Coursera certificate, Meta) , Advanced React (Coursera certificate, Meta)

  • Sep 2021 - Dec 2022 polish flag

    Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv

    MS in Applied mathematics, Dept of Computer Science and Cybernetics, full merit-based scholarship

    Extracurriculars: frontend and backend SW engineering (study program from EPAM Systems); Front-End JavaScript Frameworks: Angular (Coursera certificate, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

Languages

  • English (fluent)
  • Ukrainian (native)
  • Polish (basic)

Profile

Software engineer with 5+ years of experience building production interfaces in React, Next.js, and Angular for enterprise observability and compliance systems, as well as AI-powered products and workflows. Specializes in complex data visualization (d3.js heatmaps, social graphs) and scalable frontend architecture. Founding engineer at a generative AI startup; MIT Emerging Talent

Experience

Jan 2026 - present
Ketch

Software Engineer

Data privacy and consent management platform designed to help enterprises automate compliance, governance, and user preference controls across digital properties

Tech Stack: React, Redux, Context API, Tailwind CSS, CSS/SCSS, JavaScript/TypeScript, Material UI, Git

  • Built and refined frontend features for consent preferences, communication settings and subscription management dashboards, leveraging AI-assisted development to accelerate feature delivery and iteration cycles
  • Implemented reusable UI components using Material UI and the company’s internal design system to ensure consistency, accessibility, and faster feature delivery
  • Developed complex tables and analytics views with filtering, sorting, and pagination to support large-scale user and identifier datasets
  • Contributed to the company’s internal UI library, extending the library and improving standardization across the project
Jul 2024 - Jan 2026
Kloudfuse

Software Engineer

Observability platform designed to scale efficiently and cost-effectively, empowering organizations to gain actionable insights and optimize their systems' performance

Tech Stack: React, d3.js, JavaScript/TypeScript, CSS/SCSS, Tailwind CSS, HTML, Git

  • Implemented comprehensive error handling and display across the platform to improve issue tracking
  • Leveraged AI tools to accelerate frontend development and debugging of complex visualization features
  • Developed an interactive d3.js-based heatmap for visualizing latency distribution, enhancing data insights and system monitoring
  • Added UI components for managing integration connections (e.g., Kubernetes, AWS), improving user experience and ease of configuration
  • Built RBAC interfaces for managing users, groups, policies, and folder permissions, improving security and admin workflows
Jun 2023 - Jul 2024
PipeIQ

Founding Software Engineer

A Generative AI startup targeting marketing and sales use cases

Tech Stack: Next.js, JavaScript/TypeScript, CSS/SCSS, Tailwind CSS, Redux, AWS, HTML, Git

  • Developed UI integration components for Hubspot, Salesforce, Zoom, Calendly, Gong platforms and configured the connection process
  • Built a social graph with d3.js for visual tracking of company leads
  • Configured routing and state management of data between the application pages using Next.js
  • Coached junior team members on project structure implementation & scalability, and ensured consistency across application modules
  • Added Redux and ReduxPersist to the project to optimize data management and persist data across reloads
  • Configured AWS Gateway API lambda functions and S3 Bucket resources
  • Developed a custom chat interface leveraging WebSocket technology for real-time communication with the ChatGPT model, ensuring smooth and responsive user interactions
Feb 2023 - Jun 2023
ProgramEquity
(contract)

Software Engineer

501c3 nonprofit that connects tech workers to skill-based volunteering workflows on open source climate tech projects

Tech Stack: Next.js, JavaScript/TypeScript, CSS/SCSS, HTML, Git

  • Built a Next.js platform to track participant performance and measure contributor effectiveness in open-source workflows
  • Integrated GitHub PR metrics display via Probot, providing real-time visibility into participant contributions
  • Collected feedback from past hackpod cohorts and optimized platform performance
Sep 2021 - June 2022
Ava.codes

Software Engineer

Fast-growing software engineer outstaffing company, serving clients like Shopify & TraceSafe

Tech Stack: Angular 2+, NgRx, RxJS, ngx-charts, JavaScript/TypeScript, CSS/SCSS, HTML, Git

  • Designed and implemented a novel feature for website video uploading and viewing for a US employee upskilling software company (SkillDirector ), meeting detailed client UI specs and using complex backend-based routing logic, which increased user engagement by 30%.
  • Implemented an organizational system for NgRx functions that sped up new feature implementation by 20%, enhancing the overall performance and efficiency of the system
  • Implemented a feature for KPI visual projection for a shop-floor management software company in Germany (SFM Systems ), using ngx-charts library
  • Created a vast collection of framework agnostic web components of the US payments software company (ACHQ ), such as navigation, page and panel components, form elements, e.g. drop-downs, using JS code injection to extend the capabilities of the development environment
June 2020 - Aug 2021
Javatar
(part-time)

Intern / Software engineer

English tutoring software startup founded by ex-Pitchbook & ex-Luxoft senior engineer

Tech Stack: Angular 2+, RxJS, JavaScript/TypeScript, CSS/SCSS, HTML, Git

  • Led upgrades to the latest versions of the build and development tools across all frontend projects, such as Angular, RxJs, NgRx increasing the efficiency of the build and development process by 25%. Implemented ESLint support and Git pre-commit hooks to enhance code quality and maintain consistency throughout the projects
  • Spearheaded the update of a suboptimal routing approach for 8 application modules to enable faster feature implementations: redefined the module structure, deleted redundancies and combined application compotents into a simplified routing sytem
  • Created pixel-perfect complex UI for the product and added interactivity, e.g. rich forms, carousel views, dynamic user input visualization
  • Implemented reactive forms validation for student/tutor interaction, set up page component routing

Professional Skills

Languages: JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS/SCSS

Frameworks: React, Next.js, Angular 2+, Redux, NgRx, RxJS

UI & Styling: Material UI, Tailwind CSS, ngx-charts

Visualization: d3.js

Tools: Git, Figma, ESLint, Webflow, Antora

Cloud: WebSockets, AWS (API Gateway, Lambda, S3)

Interests