Max Küng
Senior Software Engineer at Smallpdf
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolMax Küng is a Senior Software Engineer with 15 years of hands-on experience building user-focused frontends and developer tooling, currently shaping Smallpdf eSign in Zurich. His background spans full-stack work, realtime trading clients in C++/Qt, large CMS and internal tooling with Node.js, and infrastructure automation using Ansible/Packer/Vagrant. An active open-source contributor, he has improved developer UX in projects like vmd (markdown preview) and yakyak (desktop chat), and maintains utility libraries such as a JavaScript 2D vector class. Colleagues rely on him as the go-to JavaScript and frontend specialist who bridges product needs with pragmatic architecture. Notably, he has a history of building comprehensive knowledge systems (an “Everything‑Pedia”) that codified company processes and reduced operational friction.
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
TBZ Technische Berufsschule Zürich
German, English, French
Stackoverflow
280reputation
18kreached
3answers
3questions
Github Skills (23)
markdown10
uitest10
javascript10
coffeescript10
electron10
testing10
user-interface10
ui-design10
moc10
markdown-it10
chai10
nodejs9
html9
documentation8
cross-platform8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
maxkueng/victor
Aug 2013 - Dec 2016
A JavaScript 2D vector class with methods for common vector operations
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:219 commits, 4 PRs, 51 pushes in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Max implemented build scripts and browserify dependencies to create a minified and non-minified build of the JavaScript 2D vector class. They added stub tests using mocha and chai to enable testing of the project. Furthermore, the user added utility methods like toArray() and toObject(), along with documentation to improve the usability and understanding of the vector class. Additionally, the user added several instance methods, like: invertX, invertY and other methods and also added the feature to project onto a given vector.
2d-vectorjavascript
yoshuawuyts/vmd
Feb 2015 - Nov 2018
:pray: preview markdown files
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:16 releases, 280 commits, 57 PRs in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Max primarily worked on improving the functionality and user experience of the `vmd` application, which previews markdown files. Their contributions included resolving pathing issues, implementing auto-reloading of content on file changes, and resolving relative image paths. The user also set the window title, added a window icon, and integrated syntax highlighting with highlight.js. Furthermore, they added in-page search functionality.
markdown
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