Max Fierke
Staff Software Engineer at Author Health
Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolMax Fierke is a Staff Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building reliable full-stack systems and leading engineering efforts across healthcare and academic organizations. Based in Saint Paul, he has driven platform and performance improvements at Iora Health/One Medical and now shapes technical strategy at Author Health. A practical polyglot, Max has contributed to notable open-source projects including the Crystal language core and the popular ember-concurrency addon, improving compiler robustness and async task lifecycle APIs. He combines low-level systems insight (e.g., segfault handlers and aarch64 macOS support) with front-end and tooling work, reflecting a breadth from infrastructure to app-level concerns. Collected early on through hands-on roles from hardware repair to web ops, his background reveals a pragmatic focus on stability, performance, and giving back to upstream OSS.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science Technical Writing & Communication and IT Infrastructure, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science Technical Writing & Communication and IT Infrastructure at University of Minnesota
English, German
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Github Skills (22)
asynchronous10
parserator10
programming-language10
javascript10
parser10
crystal-lang10
async10
emberjs10
compiler-compiler10
compiler10
testing9
macos9
arm9
front-end-development8
debugging8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
machty/ember-concurrency
Apr 2018 - Dec 2022
ember-concurrency is an Ember Addon that enables you to write concise, worry-free, cancelable, restartable, asynchronous tasks.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:24 releases, 39 reviews, 359 commits in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Max contributed significantly to the `ember-concurrency` addon, a library for managing asynchronous tasks in Ember.js applications. Their commits focused on implementing and refining the task instance lifecycle events API, including adding new events and making them configurable. Furthermore, the user updated the project's dependencies and configuration, specifically bumping the Ember CLI version and modifying testing configurations.
asynchronous-tasksember-addonember-concurrency
crystal-lang/crystal
Aug 2017 - Nov 2021
The Crystal Programming Language
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 reviews, 8 commits, 6 PRs in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Max primarily contributed to the Crystal Programming Language core, addressing compiler and parser-related issues. Their work included fixing bugs related to instance variable typing in inheritance scenarios, disallowing setters with multiple arguments in the parser, and implementing a segfault handler. Additionally, the user added support for the aarch64 architecture for macOS/darwin targets.
programming-languagecrystalcompilercrystal-language
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