Maksym Portianoi
Toronto, Canada
Experience
Software engineer @ Kong
January 2023 - Present, Toronto
As a dedicated software engineer at Kong, I have taken on significant responsibilities and demonstrated leadership in key projects. Here are some highlights of my contributions:
- Led design system project: spearheaded the development and implementation of Kong’s new design system, focusing on the comprehensive Kongponents (Kong’s open-source UI components library) reskin. This role involved enhancing developer experience, improving E2E test reliability, and ensuring seamless design-to-engineering transitions by aligning Kongponents with Figma components
- Project ownership and leadership: acted as the main front-end engineer for the Cloud Gateways feature, implemented the MVP flow for configuring cloud clusters in Konnect. Demonstrated strong leadership and project management skills, delivering high-quality work showcased in API Summit demo
- Subject-matter expertise: established myself as the go-to expert on Kongponents, design system-related questions, and CSS. Successfully handled Kongponents reskin, adoption across all Konnect microfrontends and collaborated with multiple teams to address related issues and improvements
- Proactive problem solver: consistently identified and executed improvement opportunities, supported team members, and fulfilled on-call engineering duties effectively
Software developer @ Acuity Insights
November 2021 - December 2022, Remote
At Acuity Insights, I contributed to both front-end and back-end development with a focus on system optimization and codebase improvement. Key accomplishments include:
- Spearheaded the improvement of system monitoring, conducting in-depth metric analysis during various load conditions to implement alert systems. This allowed the team to transition from an active monitoring model to an on-call system during high-demand hours
- Helped refactor our code from Node.js to TypeScript, making it easier for the team to maintain and improve the codebase
- Served as a reliable team player, frequently collaborating on cross-functional initiatives and fostering a culture of knowledge-sharing within the development team
- Played a key role in fixing urgent issues, contributing to stable system performance during busy times
Software engineer @ The Rumie Initiative
May 2019 - November 2021, Toronto
As a part of the Rumie development team I was involved in several projects. My key accomplishments include:
- Creating analytics section of a web application using CubeJS and ExpressJs and seamlessly integrating the solution in existing Vue.js front-end
- Delivering front-end portion for internal staff portal (REST API-driven Nuxt VueJs application)
- Rapid ground-up development of a complex platform for real-time collaborative creation of unique learning experiences (Nuxt VueJs and Firebase application)
Web developer intern @ Northern Commerce
January 2019 - April 2019, London (Canada)
At Northern I’ve learned how to work as a part of a professional team expanding my skillset. My responsibilities were:
- Custom Wordpress theme development
- Wordpress site maintenance
- Content updates for blogs and ecommerce sites
Education
Interactive Media Design, Fanshawe College
January 2018 - April 2019, London (Canada)
Computer Science, Sumy State University
September 2015 - June 2019, Sumy, Ukraine