Draft copy
Max Blaschek
Software Engineer · Glasgow, UK · Remote-first
- MaxBlaschek@protonmail.com
- GitHubgithub.com/MaxB-Coder
- LinkedInlinkedin.com/in/maxblaschek
- Download PDF
Software engineer with two years in banking, building Java and React services. I tend to build the internal tools nobody asked for: a mock data service six engineers used every day, and an evidence tool I demoed to around forty. I moved into software from sports science, through a bootcamp and an apprenticeship I finished with a Distinction while working full time. Learning Go and Python next.
Experience
JPMorgan ChaseSoftware Engineer
Mar 2026 – Present · Glasgow
- Develop and support a high-throughput distributed platform that validates people and payments: Spring microservices, React, Kafka and SQL, shipped with Docker and CI/CD.
- Built the integration for a new device-risk assessment service, working with a domain expert.
- Built an evidence tool that turns screenshots, recordings and API test runs into a standard HTML report attached to each ticket. Demoed to around 40 engineers.
- Noticed a monitoring datasource in the test environment had been missing for years, and fixed it (Grafana, Prometheus).
Lloyds Banking GroupSoftware Engineer
Sep 2024 – Feb 2026 · Edinburgh
- Helped modernise a legacy server-rendered business banking page into Spring microservices with a React front end, without a big-bang rewrite: the old pages returned JSON first, so the new front end was built against real data while the old one kept running.
- Average page load roughly halved, from about 2 seconds to under 1.
- Built a mock data service that six engineers used daily instead of hand-writing test fixtures.
- Closed 80+ tickets in two months across backend and testing in the first phase, alongside one other engineer.
OVO EnergyZero Carbon Living Advisor
Oct 2023 – Aug 2024 · Glasgow
- Advised customers on low-carbon home energy in a regulated business.
Education
- Software Engineering Apprenticeship, FirebrandCompleted while working full time at Lloyds2024–2025 · Distinction
- Software Engineering Bootcamp, Digital Futures2023 · Merit
- MSc Sports & Exercise Science and Medicine, University of Glasgow2020–2021 · Merit
- BSc Physiology, University of Glasgow2016–2020 · 2:1
Skills
- Languages
- Java, JavaScript, SQL
- Backend
- Spring Boot, Microservices, Kafka, JUnit, Mockito
- Frontend
- React
- Delivery
- Docker, CI/CD, Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk
- Learning
- Go, Python
Projects, most of which you can run: maxblaschek.com/work