Senior Ruby on Rails Engineer

Max Hlap is a Senior engineer with 12 years of experience in Ruby on Rails. He is a strong generalist who quickly builds deep understanding of codebases, systems, and product context. He cares about quality, reliability, and maintainability, and particularly enjoys refactoring existing code to improve those aspects. He aims to solve immediate problems in ways that also support the broader product vision. He consistently looks for opportunities to reduce friction, improving the experience for both users and developers. For example, he built https://github.com/MaxLap/activerecord_where_assoc, a Ruby library with over 1.5 million downloads. Max is open to full-time and part-time engagements.