# Max Runia > Staff Software Engineer Location: Meridian, Idaho, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/maxrunia I'm a team player with ten years of experience in fullstack software engineering. I've enjoyed being a part of three successful startups, one of which (TSheets) was acquired by Intuit. I've tackled many hard problems such as: improving customer onboarding and activation, system scalability, internal tooling and pipelines, observability, API integrations, integrating a legacy monolith into a broader micro-service ecosystem, converting legacy systems to cloud architecture, and many other customer facing features. I look forward to opportunities that allow me to grow my skillset as an engineer and tackle interesting problems. Recruiters can reach me at max@mrunia.com ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ PlexTrac Jan 2024 – Present • Currently serve as a technical team lead. • Involved in broader architecture decisions and level-of-effort discussions, project planning. • Mentor other engineers on coding best practices, database query optimization, how to find and fix performance issues, and how to use our observability tooling. ### Senior Software Engineer @ PlexTrac Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 • Introduced a robust event based architecture which allowed us to move slow asynchronous tasks out of our API layer. This improved the performance of some of our most used endpoints by over 200%. • Designed and implemented an ETL from a document database to a relational database. • Converted our monolith to Kubernetes with ArgoCD, improving our ability to deploy without downtime. • Built developer tooling (Chat-ops) for CICD so that we could deploy multiple times per day. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Intuit Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Boise, Idaho Area • Ported intuit's java Authn/z library to php so TSheets could integrate with Intuit's micro-service ecosystem. • Modernized our php backend by introducing a package manager, creating a new unit testing suite, and introducing a dependency injection container. • Introduced static analysis and other developer tooling into the CI pipelines to prevent RCAs and other bugs. • Build and maintained shared CICD pipelines for a large micro-frontend architecture. ### Software Engineer @ Intuit Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Boise, Idaho Area ### Software Engineer @ TSheets Time Tracking Software Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Boise, Idaho Area • Improved trial activation rate by 5% by introducing guided tours, onboarding wizards, and other customer workflow improvements. • Collaborated with Design, Product, and Marketing to build and release a new navigation experience within the product. By instrumenting the UI before and after, we were able to see new trial customers were 39% more likely to discover the feature(s) that they were looking for within the first 10 minutes of landing in the platform. • Interfaced with external engineering teams from ADP to create an ADP Payroll API integration. ### Software Engineer @ Tovuti LMS Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 • Designed and implemented a billing platform which could support a range of complex billing features. • Migrated approximately 35,000 credit cards from a legacy system to a payment gateway. • Built a dashboard for customer support to handle billing related inquiries and easily spot anomalies in customer billing. ## Education ### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science Southern Oregon University Jan 2011 – Jan 2015 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/max-runia --- Source: https://flows.cv/maxrunia JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/maxrunia/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22