# Maksym Polinka

> Software Engineer | React | Next | Angular | Physically based in San Francisco with full US work authorization

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/maksympolinka

Software engineer with 5 years of experience in modern web app development using Next, React and Angular. Passionate about maintaining a clean codebase to which code reviews, team communication and collaboration are central

https://dunridge.github.io/maksym-polinka/

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Ketch
Jan 2026 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Contributed to the development of a data privacy and consent management platform that helps enterprises automate compliance, governance, and user preference management across digital properties:
- Built and refined frontend features for consent preferences, communication settings, and subscription management dashboards
- 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
- Partnered closely with product and design to translate requirements into responsive, production ready interfaces and contributed to code reviews and enhancing overall usability and user experience

### Software Engineer @ Kloudfuse
Jan 2024 – Jan 2026 | Cupertino, California, United States
Contributed to the development of an observability platform optimized for scalability and cost-efficiency, providing organizations with actionable insights to enhance system performance:
- Implemented comprehensive error handling and display across the platform to improve issue tracking
- Refined platform-wide styling, ensuring a cohesive and polished user interface
- 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
- Designed custom SVG logos for integrations (e.g., Kubernetes, AWS) using Figma, maintaining visual consistency with the platform’s branding and enhancing overall UI
- Configured a documentation generation pipeline using Antora to convert AsciiDoc (.adoc) pages into a structured site, streamlining the creation and maintenance of integration documentation
- Worked on the development of Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) interfaces for managing groups, users, policies, and folder permissions, improving security and administrative workflows

### Founding Software Engineer @ PipeIQ
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Palo Alto, California, United States
Built the frontend for the next generation marketing orchestration platform that leverages Generative AI from the ground up: 
- 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 and Context API
- 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

### Software Engineer @ ProgramEquity
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area
Developed the initial version of the website using Webflow for ProgramEquity's hackpod project, effectively showcasing the concept of hackpods and creating a user-friendly platform for volunteers to register:
- Utilized Next.js to develop a high-performance website for ProgramEquity's hackpod project, providing a seamless platform for volunteers to register. This transition from Webflow to Next.js resulted in a 40% improvement in page loading speed, enhancing the user experience and engagement
- Collected feedback on past hackpods and optimize the website performance
- Configured GitHub pull request feedback form display using Probot
- Added PR metrics measurement using GitHub Actions

### Software Engineer @ AVA.codes
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Kyiv City, Ukraine
As part of a small team, designed and implemented features for US and German software clients, ran code reviews, and led UI and UX requirements discussions with client PMs:
- Designed and implemented a novel feature for website video uploading and viewing for a US employee upskilling software company (SkillDirector), meeting detailed client’s UI specs and using complex backend-based routing logic. Implemented an organizational system to optimize NgRx functions
- 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

### Software Engineer @ Javatar
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Kyiv City, Ukraine
As a part of small team, developed UI for an English tutoring marketplace startup to meet the product and business goals, ran code reviews and and led discussions with product stakeholders:
- Led upgrades to the latest versions of the build and development tools across all frontend projects, e.g. Node.js, Angular CLI (global and local), Webpack, added ESLint support, Git pre-commit hooks
- Spearheaded the update of a suboptimal routing approach to enable faster future 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

### Intern @ Javatar
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Kyiv City, Ukraine


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

### Master of Science - MS in Computer Engineering
Vistula University

### Master of Science - MS in Applied Mathematics
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv

### Java Spring Boot Camp in Computer Software Engineering
EPAM UpSkill

### Bechelor of Science - BS in System Analysis
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/maksym-polinka
- Portfolio: https://dunridge.github.io/maksym-polinka/
- Portfolio: https://calendar.app.google/G7jEWMHbAUxaxSF18

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Last updated: 2026-04-10