Max Smith

Background

About Max Smith

Software Developer with American Airlines. As a member of the traveldocs team at American Airlines throughout the entirety of the COVID pandemic, I am used to working in an environment of tight deadlines and working with business to turn vague requirements into workable items. My coding style is focused on efficient code and scalable patterns more than the most novel solution. I have been part of several key initiatives while at American Airlines, including but not limited to- Rapid designing and deployment of systems to control travel both in and out of the United States based on government regulations and vaccination status during the COVID pandemic- Design, development, and deployment of angular web pages in a self service kiosk- Design, development, and deployment of angular web pages in a browser environment- Maintaining and deploying containerized, autoscaling applications using Kubernetes and IBM cloud in an enterprise environment that handle millions of transactions every day- Development, enhancement. and deployment of APIs across multiple microservices in an enterprise environment- Experience working as a devops engineer, using pipelines for automation in the deployment process and deploying in blue/green production environments- Experience creating and maintaining dashboards in tools like Kubernetes and Mezmo/LogDNA for both technical and business audiences- Experience creating functional test suites for applications and integrating these tests into automation pipelines- Experience creating technical user stories- Working in an agile environment and following user stories through their life cycle. Skills/technologies- Java (6 years professional experience)- HTML/CSS (4 years professional experience)- JavaScript/TypeScript (4 years professional experience)- Spring/Springboot (6 years professional experience)- Gradle (4 years professional experience)- Angular (4 years professional experience)- Kubernetes (4 years professional experience)- Docker (4 years professional experience)- GitAction pipelines (1 year professional experience)- Sabre terminal - Github - Postman - Redis - Mezmo/LogDNA - Dynatrace - IBM Cloud