My Resume
Professional experience, education, and skills.
Max Smith
Custom Woodworking
Custom woodworker with 10+ years of experience building handcrafted pieces for homes and businesses. Specializing in built-ins, custom cabinets, cutting boards, and one-of-a-kind work made with quality materials.
Work Experience
Frontend Engineer
Joining a Series B startup as a senior frontend engineer. Leading the design system initiative, building data-visualization dashboards for enterprise clients, and mentoring junior engineers.
Leading frontend architecture for a real-time analytics platform used by 200+ enterprise customers. Working closely with product and design to ship major features on a two-week release cycle.
Highlights:
- Architected and shipped a new design system (30+ components) adopted across 3 product lines
- Reduced dashboard time-to-interactive by 55% by migrating from REST polling to GraphQL subscriptions
- Introduced Playwright end-to-end testing, catching 3 critical regressions before production
- Mentoring 2 junior engineers through code reviews and weekly 1:1s
Junior Frontend Developer
Built and maintained customer-facing React applications for a SaaS platform serving 50,000+ users. Improved page load performance by 40% through code splitting and lazy loading strategies.
Joined as the third frontend engineer on a fast-growing product team. Took ownership of the customer dashboard, refactoring a legacy jQuery codebase into a modern React/TypeScript app with a design system built from scratch.
Key contributions:
- Led the migration from class components to hooks, reducing bundle size by 18%
- Implemented an automated visual regression testing suite with Storybook and Chromatic
- Collaborated with the design team to ship a new onboarding flow that increased activation rate by 22%
Education
Code School — Full-Stack Web Development
Intensive 16-week immersive program covering full-stack JavaScript, React, Node.js, and PostgreSQL. Graduated in the top 5% of the cohort.
Completed an intensive bootcamp that covered the full web development stack. Built 8 projects over 16 weeks, including a final capstone that was featured at the graduation showcase.
Coursework included algorithms and data structures, RESTful API design, database modeling, and agile development workflows.
Conestoga College of Technology and Advanced Learning
Woodworking Technology — 2-Year Diploma
- Completed a rigorous two-year diploma program focused on advanced woodworking techniques, precision manufacturing, and material science
- Gained hands-on experience operating industrial CNC routers, table saws, planers, and jointers in a production-level workshop environment
- Studied complex joinery methods including dovetail, mortise-and-tenon, and finger joints with an emphasis on structural integrity and aesthetic finish
- Developed proficiency in reading and interpreting architectural blueprints, shop drawings, and CAD-generated production plans
- Learned advanced wood finishing techniques such as lacquer application, staining, and hand-rubbed oil finishes for both residential and commercial projects
- Acquired a strong foundation in materials science, including wood species selection, moisture content management, and grain orientation for optimal strength and appearance
- Collaborated on team-based capstone projects that simulated real-world client briefs from concept through to final delivery and installation
- Trained in lean manufacturing principles, shop safety protocols, and quality control processes used in modern woodworking facilities