About Me

I’m Maximilian, but you can call me just Max. I’m from Helsinki, Finland, where I was born and have lived my whole life. I currently work at Reaktor as a Senior Infrastructure and Automation Engineer, practically this means that I’m usually automating and designing cloud infrastructure deployments.
My passion is in writing sensible, good, readable code, but I know that the realities are often different and will strive to get shit done. I’m a jack-of-all-trades and can work all the way from frontend to backend and deployments, I am able to write lower level performant code and single use scripts. I will even use Excel if that seems like the right tool for the job.
I want to focus more on people skills and facilitation in the near future and would really like to learn more about coaching.
CV
Work
- Reaktor (2022/3 - Present): Senior DevOps & Dev Consultant, Technical Team Lead
- More focus on facilitation, project management, and team building.
- Still doing lots of IaC, automation, and development work.
- Reaktor (2019/12 - 2022/3): Senior Infrastructure and Automation Engineer
- Worked at clients such as Varian, Kesko, and Orion designing, building, and implementing scalable and secure solutions using multiple different software and cloud environments.
- Graduated from our internal Team Builder Academy, improving and training my interpersonal and team leader skills.
- Continued my work on Reaktor’s junior recruitment, designing the pre-assignment, general planning, screening applications, interviewing people, making hiring decisions, collecting feedback on the employees, and many other things.
- Reaktor (2017/9 - 2019/12): System Specialist
- During this time I worked at clients such as adidas, OP, and Elisa developing custom solutions for the customers needs using agile methods.
- In addition to the customer work, I was also part of the summer recruitment team, our internal diversity and inclusivity team, and helped with the students cooperation (excursions etc.).
- Gofore (2017/3 - 2017/9): System Specialist
- During my time at Gofore I worked for a large Finnish client developing a PaaS solution.
- Kuka (2016/5 - 2016/3): Software Developer
- Development and design of a full-stack application.
- McDonald’s (2014/2 - 2015/8): Restaurant Worker
- Customer service, preparing food, and maintaining of cleanliness.
- Fantomatico Oy (2012/5 - 2012/10): Software Developer
- Software development with Adobe Flash and ActionScript 3, batch processing of photos in Adobe Photoshop.
- Fantomatico Oy (2011/6 - 2011/7): Summer Assistant
- Editing photos in Adobe Photoshop, and debugging software.
Tools
I’m comfortable with a wide range of languages and tools. When given the choice I prefer to program with Python or Go, for deployments and automation I prefer to always use the cloud native solution but when that doesn’t make sense, and I there isn’t a sensible replacement, I write my own tools. Below is a thematically sorted list of things I’ve used somewhat recently.
- AWS, CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible.
- Linux, Windows, Docker, GitHub Actions.
- Python, Go, TypeScript, JavaScript, Bash, PowerShell, Makefile.
- React, Next.js, FastAPI.
- DynamoDB, S3, Postgres, SQLite, Kafka.
I prefer to work in small independent teams that use agile methodologies, preferably with the whole team sitting in the same room most of the days.
Education
- Computer Science, University of Helsinki (2013-2017)
- TKO-äly: Member of the Board (2016 and 2017)
- Helsinki Upper Secondary School of Visual Arts (2010-2013)
Other Experience
- Volunteer at UltraHack (2015/11)
- Military Service in the Finnish Defence Forces (2013/6 - 2013/12): Engineer with specialization in Communications