# Max Abukhovsky

> AI Software Engineer & Entrepreneur

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

• Lead full-stack Software Engineer with 20 years of experience in Java-based Enterprise application Design (both Architectural and Functional), Development, Integration, Implementation, Deployment & Production Support. 
• Have successfully completed 14+ projects in different industries such as Sales & Marketing, Health Care, Banking, Financial Markets, Social Networking, Music and Entertainment, CRM, HR, Virtualization, Application Security.
• Masters degree in Computer Science and Economics. Strong knowledge and extensive experience of building algorithms and data structures that solve business problems in an efficient way. 
• Hands-on AI (model-based) services integration experience (PII data discovery and anonymization)
• Well versed with distributed computing principles and proven experience building high scale high performance cloud platforms and services.
• Expert in utilization of Java, various J2EE packages and associated technologies, JavaScript, Struts, Spring Framework, Java Server Faces, RichFaces, Hibernate, Hibernate Annotations, XML, DHTML, JDBC, Web Services (REST \ SOAP), AJAX, GWT.
• Proficient in object oriented analysis (API design and implementation experience at Google, Vmware, Salesforce), methodology (patterns, refactoring, 2 / 3 / multi layer architectures, code reviews).
• Team management experience on an international project. Hands-on SCRUM experience.Excellent communication and interpersonal skills (a result-oriented leader with a passion to motivate a team).
• Expert in web security. Leaded Platform Security team at Salesforce (enhancement of existing security algorithms for protection against different types of attacks including cross-site scripting, cross-site request forgery, SQL injection, etc.) Designed and implemented multiple solutions that match newest standards (HMAC, Content Security Policy etc.). Built network traffic security solution for Workday. 
• Strong experience with No-SQL (MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis) as well as RDBMS (Oracle, MySQL etc.)
• Key contributor to US Patent 10,628,590 B2 "APPLICATION SECURITY ASSESSMENT"

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ ServiceNow
Jan 2021 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
+ Designed and implemented Data Privacy plugin (masks or removes sensitive data from cloud) https://docs.servicenow.com/bundle/washingtondc-platform-security/page/administer/security/concept/data-privacy.html
+ Designed and implemented Data Discovery plugin (scans and collects stats about sensitive data) https://docs.servicenow.com/bundle/washingtondc-platform-security/page/administer/security/concept/data-discovery.html
+ Implemented sensitive data discovery and anonymization powered by Artificial Intelligence (model-based discovery)
+ Supported ServiceNow cloud security products in production
+ Mentored interns \ junior engineers

### Senior Software Engineer @ Workday
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Pleasanton, California, United States
Being a Senior Software Engineer at Application Security team, I was responsible for bringing security infrastructure to the next level by building new tools / services that are shared by multiple teams at Workday. 

+ Designed and implemented network filtering platform that helped to significantly improve security of utilization of external services by internal Workday applications
+ Mentored & trained new engineers, code reviews
+ Participated in regular penetration testing and security vulnerabilities research sessions

Languages: Java, Kotlin
Technologies: AWS, Spring Framework, Envoy Proxy, Redis, Alpaca, SSL, Rabbit MQ, Encryption, REST, HTTPS, Mongo DB

### Senior Security Engineer @ salesforce.com
Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
+ Designed and implemented Security HealthCheck - settings evaluation dashboard (US Patent 10,628,590 B2 "APPLICATION SECURITY ASSESSMENT" ). Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC0ciHZrkh0
+ Improved platform security algorithms for salesforce.com core application
+ Enhanced platform protection against XSS \ CSRF \ Clickjacking etc.
+ Trained & mentored junior engineers (code reviews, presentations etc.).

### Senior Software Engineer @ VMware
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | Palo Alto, California
+ Developing infrastructure frameworks for automated testing of the top virtualization products (Virtual Center, vCloud Director)
+ Reviewing Java code and providing technical guidance for team members

### Senior Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Mountain View, California
Software Engineer contractor at No1 web search company, worked onsite. "Analytics" is one of the most complex and popular traffic web stats platform in the world.

+ Designed and implemented base classes of framework used for HTTP request \ response front-end testing (Java)

### Senior Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 | Mountain View, California
"GT" is a distributed CRM application available at data-centers worldwide. Built on cutting edge technologies including non-relational databases and high-performance services this system processes more than 1,000,000 email messages daily.

• Successfully designed and implemented testing framework for GT integration tests (Java, WebDriver). Tests are executed in distributed environment, each test sets up own environment including instance of GT, services, databases etc.
• Implemented more than 120 UI integration tests on the framework.
• Developed Agents \ Queues\ Routing Rules tabs functionality for GT Admin application (Java, Google Web Toolkit).
• Troubleshooted and fixed more than 40 bugs and customer issues.
• Rewarded with “Top-performer of the quarter” award twice (Q4 2010, Q2 2011) in a team of 11 people.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 | Mountain View, California
Software Engineer contractor at No1 web search company, worked onsite. "GT" is a distributed CRM application available at data-centers worldwide. Built on cutting edge technologies including non-relational databases and high-performance services this system processes more than 1,000,000 email messages daily.

• Successfully designed and implemented testing framework for GT integration tests (Java, WebDriver). Tests are executed in distributed environment, each test sets up own environment including instance of GT, services, databases etc.
• Implemented more than 120 UI integration tests on the framework.
• Developed Agents \ Queues\ Routing Rules tabs functionality for GT Admin application (Java, Google Web Toolkit).
• Troubleshooted and fixed more than 40 bugs and customer issues.
• Rewarded with “Top-performer of the quarter” award twice (Q4 2010, Q2 2011) in a team of 11 people.

### Lead Java Software Engineer @ Allied Testing
Jan 2009 – Jan 2010
02/2009 – present | Thomson Reuters | Minsk, Belarus

Architect / Team leader on Java/J2EE  “AAA smoke tests automation” project

Reuters AAA is a common platform for all Reuters products. This complicated system will be installed on servers in Europe, Asia, America and Australia – several datacenters controlled by different operating systems (Windows, Linux, Solaris).
The main goal of our project – create easy configurable smoke tests automation application which can be used to quick check availability of all main functions of AAA.

•   Successfully designed and implemented architecture of Pillar Integration testing application 
•   Developed architecture of dependable applications (connectivity tool, agents)
•   Responsible for middle tier gateway between low level of application and Front-End (multithreading).
•   Designed and implemented a build scripts using ANT and Maven to build deployment packages of dependable agent applications
•   Organized a series of technical interviews to choose the best candidates to join the project as developers
•   Managed the team of 5 developers: distributed tasks, assisted in implementation, reported about progress to the customer

Business trip to Nottingham (UK) for several months. Worked in
Thomson Reuters office as a team member.

Environment: JDK 1.6, jUnit, XSLT, Swing, Xalan, xFire, WebServices, Ganymede, Eclipse, ANT, Maven, Solaris, Windows Server

### Senior Java/J2EE Developer @ Allied Testing
Jan 2008 – Jan 2009
07/2008 – 02/2009 | Thomson Reuters | The UK, Nottingham

Senior Java/J2EE Developer on “Fixed Income: TradeWeb” project

Tradeweb is one of the world’s leading over-the-counter multi-asset class marketplaces, and a pioneer in the development of electronic trading. Fixed Income Tradeweb is a multifunctional applet which supports all Tradeweb operations and provides access to them users of Reuters Extra 3000 trading platform. I was offered to participate in this project as lead GUI developer / jUnit test developer and leader of the team of developers from Minsk. 

•	Successfully implemented functional requirements (java code), application logics
•	Successfully implemented UI requirements (create and edit applet UI classes)
•	Successfully developed Unit tests (jUnit) which covered 100% of smoke tests designed for the project
•	Participated in application design meetings, helped to define class hierarchy
•	Fixed majority of UI \ Controller bugs
•	Coordinated developers work (Minsk and Nottingham offices)
•	Trained developers from Minsk office to get into the project architecture / implementation details

Environment: JDK 1.6, jUnit, Ganymede, Eclipse, ANT, Maven, Web Services

### Senior Java Developer @ Exadel
Jan 2008 – Jan 2008
04/2008 – 07/2008 | SEARS | Minsk, Belarus

Senior Java/J2EE Developer on “SEARS Manage My Home” project

ManageMyHome is Web-based application, which allows customers to solve home problems with expert answers, project guides, owner’s manuals and to-do lists.

•	Successfully developed jUnit tests for all range of database manipulation operations
•	Successfully implemented performance testing scripts
•	Improved and optimized Java code as well as SQL queries, including views and stored procedures

Environment: JDK 1.6, Hibernate, JBoss application Server, Spring, Java Server Faces (RichFaces), SQL, JavaScript, Web Services

### Senior Java/J2EE Developer @ Exadel
Jan 2007 – Jan 2008
09/2007 – 04/2008 | Deutche Bank | Minsk, Belarus

Senior Java/J2EE Developer on “Morning Reports” project

Morning Reports is a bank-related markets web application which provides staff with important information, organized as reports, diagrams and tables.

•	Worked with Development team on clarification and classification of business, functional and technical requirements.
•	Implemented functional requirements (java code)
•	Implemented UI requirements (created and edited pages – RichFaces library)
•	Successfully implemented GUI-related JavaScript methods
•	Developed jUnit tests
•	Fixed bugs and analyzed performance problems

Environment: JDK 1.6, Apache Tomcat, jUnit, Spring Framework, Java Server Faces (RichFaces), SQL, JavaScript, Hibernate Annotations, JavaScript, Enterprise Architect, Subversion SVN, Tortoise SVN

### Java/J2EE Developer @ Scand
Jan 2006 – Jan 2007
03/2006 – 09/2007 | JCatalog | Minsk, Belarus

Java/J2EE Developer on “Automotive” & SSM projects

As a Java developer, I participated on Development and Production support of existing Java projects for jCatalog. 
Automotive is a rich web application built on Hibernate – Spring – JSF technologies. It is a multifunctional automobile catalogue which allows users to perform different data manipulation operations (add, remove, search, merge, etc.)

•	Designed and Implemented custom projects using J2EE components and Core Java.
•	Analyzed problems and fixed bugs
•	Developed jUnit tests, XSLT transformation templates (data -> PDF, PDF -> data).
•	Assisted in project migration from xDoclet to Hibernate Annotations technology
•	Developed XML scripts for OsWorkflow

Environment: Java 4,5, Spring Framework 2.0, Java Server Faces (My Faces), Java Server Pages, JSTL, Jakarta Struts Framework, Hibernate (Hibernate Annotations), HQL, xDoclet, XSLT, Xalan, jUnit, log4j, OsWorkflow, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, HSQLDB, MySQL; Oracle v. 8, 9; MSSQL), Subversion, SVN, JIRA.


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mabukhovsky
- Portfolio: http://www.askmesoft.com
- Portfolio: http://www.alliedtesting.com
- Portfolio: http://www.brainbench.com

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Last updated: 2026-04-12