# Max Bolotin > Staff Software Engineer at Minerva Project Location: El Cerrito, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/maxbolotin Mission-driven Sr Software/Lead Engineer who's been involved in all areas of the product/web life cycle. I'm happy to finally be able to do what I'm good at and enjoy doing it for an organization I believe in. Specialties: React, Rails, NodeJs/TypeScript, Django/Flask, Angular, Grails, REST/GraphQL, AWS, Terraform, ASP.NET, Spring, Hibernate, HTML, SQL, Embedded SQL, PL/SQL ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ Minerva Project Jan 2024 – Present * Staff engineer working on feature development for online dynamic education platform using Django (DRF)/ReactJS/TypeScript and ShareDB with MySql. * Designed and built a framework for synchronizing user interactions between browser tabs for scrolling, video play and pdf viewing/interacting (including embedded youtube videos) using the Broadcast Channel API. * Built a objected-oriented test framework around the React-Testing-library to allow for re-usable test components with intellisense. * Redesigned our web-socket pubsub keep-alive mechanism to record user metadata in redis. Data was used to track student activity in the course. ### Sr Software Engineer @ Remind Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 * Designed, Developed and ran a project to build features for a tutoring application using React/Typescript/GraphQl/NodeJs/Postgres * Designed, Developed and built a matching service in Python/Flask/Ariadne (for graphQL) to allow our data team to easily test new algorithms for tutor matching. * Worked on our frontend guild team to improve best practices and add localization as well as other features to our frontend application and incorporate a new e2e framework in Reflect. ### Dev Lead / Sr Software Engineer @ Pathstream Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area * Sr Software Engineer and Scrum Master for an EdTech Startup working with a micro-service architecture built in Rails, Node, and React/Redux/NextJS using AWS Fargate, Elastic Beanstalk, Guacamole and GCP VMs. * Re-designed and built our marketing site to incorporate headless CMS (Contentful) server-side to ensure faster load times using NextJs and React. * Built a custom open-source gem to dynamically create proxy classes for calling api services as well as an ActiveRecord hook to connect model events to api calls. * Developed a simple Sql-like query builder in Python and Django for some lower-level BI usage. ### Tech Lead / Sr Software Engineer @ Samasource Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area * Principal developer, designing and developing a 3D Point Cloud annotation tool for generating computer vision training data used in self-driving cars and other areas of automation developed with 3JS, Angular and Rails. * Tech lead for the automation/workflow-processing/api team expanding our scalability with Rails, Angular, AWS and GCP cloud platforms. ### Tech Lead / Sr Software Engineer @ TargetX Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Oakland, CA * Scrum master and tech lead working to design, architect and develop several AWS Lambda microservices using node js to handle processing and activity tracking of a large email broadcasting system. * Scrum master for dev team working with Rails / Ember and Postgres to develop new features for a Facebook community app ### Dev Lead / Sr Software Engineer @ Ellucian Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco, California * Scrum Master/Dev Lead for a small Agile team developing CBE-based LMS education software using Rails/Angular and Postgres * Re-designed and developed the DevOps process to create CICD pipeline in Jenkins for generating AWS environments via terraform and ansible * Designed and developed a rack middle-were class to provide the customer-switching mechanism for a multi-tenant architecture ### Integrations Specialist @ UC Berkeley Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Berkeley, CA * Returned to Software Development working mainly in .NET and SOA technologies. * Provided Security Assessment and remediation efforts for a variety of applications. ### Software Architect @ Golden Gate University Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 * Handling upgrade and replacement of existing applications including integration with a new CMS. * Building base framework for Grails design * Designing integration with SalesForce (CRM) * Providing vision and roadmap of technology goals * Designing frameworks for the SOA system. * Developing best practices and standards for the development team. ### Solutions Architect @ TechSoup Global Jan 2007 – Jan 2012 Design, architecture, development and management for a non-profit that provides technical resources to other non-profits. ### Systems Consultant @ Terrace Consulting Jan 2005 – Jan 2006 Design and developed a portion of Microsoft's Learning Portal (www.microsoft.com/learning). ### Sr Software Engineer @ C. H. Robinson Jan 2004 – Jan 2005 Designed and developed systems related to internal tools and apps for logistics management. Served on design team to improve coding standards. ### IT / Business Consultant - Volunteer @ United States Peace Corps Jan 2001 – Jan 2003 | Nicaragua Taught software design. Worked with micro-credit organization to implement technology and teach small business owners the usage of technology. Taught basic computer skills to youth groups ### Associate Professor @ URACCAN Univesity Jan 2002 – Jan 2003 | Bluefields, Atlántico Sur, Nicaragua Taught Computer Systems Analysis and Design classes at a local university in Bluefields, Nicaragua. ### Sr. Lead Developer @ IdeaSource Creative Marketing, LLC Jan 2000 – Jan 2001 Developed and designed several web sites for a small marketing firm. ## Education ### Bachelors in Computer Science University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Science University of Colorado Boulder ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/max-bolotin-13078b - Website: https://github.com/elcommie --- Source: https://flows.cv/maxbolotin JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/maxbolotin/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-01