# Max Eshleman

> Software Engineer at Render

Location: Denver, Colorado, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/maxeshleman

Experienced software engineer with a seven-year background in distributed systems and cloud computing. I have a passion for test driven development, continuous integration and deployment, monitoring software and automating manual operation tasks. I strive to write clean and effective code in order to communicate intent throughout the team. I am experienced at writing Go and TypeScript. I have worked extensively with AWS and Kubernetes. I enjoy mentoring both new and experienced engineers.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Render
Jan 2023 – Present

### Senior Software Engineer @ Verica
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023
* Continuous Verification Platform (CVP) *

- Technical lead on the Continuous Verification Platform team using chaos engineering principles to find boundaries in the operation of customers’ Kubernetes and Kafka clusters performance and reliability.
- Designed and built a Golang API and CLI backed by either a Postgres or SQLite database. Features include scheduling and running verifications, watching live verification events, and recording reports from the runs to both the DB and S3.
- Developed a GUI using React/Typescript stack.
- Enhanced platform reliability to allow tracking verification runs and events through restarts and network issues.
- Worked heavily with Kubernetes and Helm to deploy CVP, schedule verification runs, and run verification jobs.

* CVP Installation and Release *

- Led the effort to convert a bespoke installation process involving locally built Docker images and handwritten K8s manifests into a fully automated release process with a Verica Installer CLI tool backed by Helm.
- Completely revamped CI/CD system using CircleCI to build over 30 verification docker images and platform images in parallel. And only build and test what is necessary when a change occurs in the mono repo.
- Designed and built infrastructure CD using Terraform and CircleCI to repeatably create and destroy development and demo environments.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Bishop Fox
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021
* Attack Surface Platform *

- Worked on state of the art attack surface discovery and testing platform built from lambdas, docker automations, golang micro-services, using RabbitMQ for communication and a React/Typescript stack for the frontend.
- Optimized attack surface import pipeline in order to improve reliability and performance by 1,000%.
- Built attack surface knowledge graph proof-of-concept using dgraph and Go with a custom asset query language and presented to C-suite and engineering leadership.
- Built activator service to dramatically improve automation pipeline speed and centralize complex activation rules.

* Domain Discovery *

- Green-fielded platform to discover domains for a company and its subsidiaries given only the root domain. Using a knowledge graph implemented in Postgres to determine confidence in domain ownership.
- Developed a React/TypeScript UI for operators to accept or deny information about a company.

* Engineering Efforts *

- Improved the organization’s proficiency writing clean, effective, well-tested Go through POCs, demos, talks, and pairing sessions.
- Introduced component level testing as a requirement for new projects. Developed a library to DRY up duplicated testing code in our micro service architecture.
- Completely reworked our CI/CD pipeline using a custom CircleCI orb.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Pivotal Software, Inc.
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | Denver, CO
Engineer for OSS Cloud Foundry Loggregator team. Leading initiative to convert metric ingress to industry standard Prometheus Exposition. Working on converting log ingress and egress to syslog.

Engineering Lead for Pivotal Cloud Foundry's Application Automation and Tooling Team. Product Development with both Pivotal Cloud Foundry and OSS Cloud Foundry.

### Junior Software Developer @ Radiant IQ
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Boulder, CO
-Designed push notification system using Java 8 for server-side and Objective C and Java to design iOS and Android applications. Deployed functional proof of concept to remote server to use during product presentation.
-Worked on an operation support system using Java 8, Groovy, Spock Unit Testing 
in an agile environment with constant production releases.

### Software Development Intern @ Comcast
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Centennial, CO
-Transferred Subversion repositories to Git as part of a company-wide transition.
-Investigated new data sources to remove dependencies on aging databases in to maintain data integrity.
-Designed new property system to allow port specific properties and live property reloading.
-Developed intelligent device polling system for more efficient data collection and problem resolution.
-Developed data filters based on cross-referencing sources and physical location to improve accuracy.
-Collaborated with team to design appointment system to increase efficiency and customer satisfaction at Xfinity retail outlets.
-Interacted with principal developers in planning phase through submission of design documentation.


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
Colorado School of Mines
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016

### Arapahoe


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/maxeshleman

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Last updated: 2026-03-29