# Maximillian Nawa

> Software Engineer

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

Email - mnawa31@gmail.com

Currently building efficient and scalable systems in rust

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Crisis Text Line
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Software Engineer II @ Commure
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area
Backend engineer working in rust

### Software Engineer @ Basis Diagnostics
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Gap Year/Sabbatical @ Self-Employed
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020
Completed a 3 month bootcamp that focused on algorithms/data structures, distributed systems and API design.
Exploring Machine Learning via Andrew Ng’s course on Coursera. Subjects include: Linear Regression, Logistic Regression and Neural Networks.
Taking time to explore subjects including single variable calculus, finance and physics.
Spent extended time in Hawaii and New York City (pre-covid).

### Software Engineer @ huddl.ai
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Mountain View, California
Built and deployed a new company website using React, HTML5, CSS3 and AWS resulting in an increased interaction with the public and potential customers.

Utilized App Script to create a Google Add-On that allows users to integrate Huddl application features into their Google Calendar.

Developed and launched a company-internal dashboard that displays the status of all Kubernete deployments. Application also allowed for creating new deployments.

Worked on and developed numerous customer facing features using React/Redux, including proof of concept features to be shown to investors.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Tunelark
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
Tunelark's mission is to make music education more fun, efficient, and accessible through games powered by learning algorithms.
	
o	Designed and implemented API functionality to collect data for ranking and displaying the top players. 
o	Utilized AWS S3 buckets linked to a PostgreSQL database to store and retrieve audio files.
o	Developed and enhanced 100+ React components and resolved 50+ frontend/backend bugs.
o	Worked closely with the CTO to architect a new full-stack game using React.js and Ruby on Rails. 
o	Increased test coverage for front-end and back-end functionality by 150% using Enzyme, Jasmine and RSpec.
o	Technology Stack: JavaScript, React.js, CoffeeScript, Redux, Ruby on Rails, AWS, Heroku, PostgreSQL


## Education
### Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in History of Art
University of California, Berkeley

### Software Engineering
Rithm School
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018

### Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-20