About Me
I'm Max Borkowski, a 27 year old Software Developer and technology enthusiast based in London with experience in application development and network infrastructure roles.
In my spare time I enjoy experimenting with making music on my computer. I'm mainly into electronic dance music; specifically genre's like GlitchHop, Drum and Bass and IDM so this is the kind of stuff I tend to make. I also enjoy a tonne of other general geekery, from programming to flying quadcopters and tend to have a project or two on the go most of the time. I like to keep up to date with the software development industry and have taken an interest in Node.js and the ecosystem of tools and frameworks that have sprung up around it. In fact, it's what I used to create this site.
Work History:
I'm currently working as a Software Engineer, developing web sites and applications at Reed Business Information, a publisher providing information to customers accross industries. My previous roles have ranged from Network Support Officer at the Royal Borough of Kingston to an application developer using C, C++ and C# at Hewlett-Packard.
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Software Developer
Developed web sites and applications using a variety of technologies including ASP.NET MVC and jQuery.
DevOps Engineer
Devised, implemented and supported Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery solutions to automate the release pipeline of C# ASP.NET applications and web services as well as a C++ CLI desktop application at Dolphin Dynamics, a company that creates software solutions for businesses in the travel industry.
Application Developer
Designed, developed, refactored and unit tested a Windows service written in C# as part of an agile team. The service performed the safety critical function of reading and writing to a bespoke storage device for a flight planning application and therefore had little room for error. This provided me with experience of creating sustainable designs and taking them from inception to implementation as well as producing the accompanying documentation.
Infrastructure Analyst
Designed, implemented and delivered technical solutions as part of a team on a large security focused web and mail gateway technical refresh project. This provided experience of working with a wide range of products and vendors in order to produce network and server solutions to a strict specification.
Network Support Officer
Supported a network of over 2000 users, both on and off site as part of the Network and Servers team.