Max Randle


maxrandle95@gmail.com 📧	📁 github.com/MaxRandle
maxrandle.co.nz 🌐	📍 Auckland, NZ

Personal statement

Senior Front End Engineer with 7+ years experience delivering robust web applications for high stakes, high traffic platforms.

A forward-thinker who anticipates blockers and communicates them early.

Thrives in cross-functional teams, bridging the gap between design and engineering with strong UI/UX fundamentals, semantic HTML, and accessibility.

Proven ability to embed quickly into client environments, build trust, and balance technical quality with delivery commitments.

Active in developer communities with a pragmatic eye for modern tooling.

Technical skills

TypeScript • React • Next • Sass • TailwindCSS • Node

I have very strong proficiency with these technologies as they comprise the majority of my technical experience. Outside of this I have a strong general understanding of modern web development and peripheral tools across the full stack.

Work experience

Senior Front end Software Engineer

AKQA • Auckland • April 2025 - Present

TypeScript | React | Next | TailwindCSS | VanillaExtract

Improve checkout experience for New World and PAK'nSAVE eCommerce platforms serving tens of thousands of customers daily.
Collaborate closely with designers and product owners to refine features, and actively contribute to sprint and quarterly planning to scope MVPs and define deliverables.
Partner with back-end engineers during technical planning to design API contracts and map front-end/back-end interactions, ensuring alignment before implementation.
Deliver critical headless CMS migration under an immovable deadline driven by expiring vendor contracts, successfully shipping to production before cutoff with zero disruption to customers.
Drive alignment across QA discipline by advocating for a streamlined testing strategy, reducing fragile end-to-end tests that blocked deployments and refocusing efforts on meaningful happy-path coverage.
Champion continuous refactoring of tightly-coupled checkout components, extracting reusable UI components and utility functions to improve maintainability and reduce cost of change for future feature work.
Identify and remediate critical accessibility failures across eCommerce sites during downtime, including unusable navigation and missing skip-to-content links.
Embed as the sole AKQA engineer within an established in-house Foodstuffs squad, quickly building trust and becoming a key contributor in team ceremonies and technical decisions.

Back end freelance project

GuChat • Remote • August 2024 - February 2025

TypeScript | Node | Express

Design and build ultra low latency public facing api for gamified telegram applet.
Create and manage comprehensive developer guide and API documentation including self-validating Openapi spec with embedded examples.
Upskill engineering team by introducing modern type safety and code generation techniques.
Understand client ecosystem and goals in order to elicit true requirements directly from client.
Give technical presentations to assist client with choosing the best approach.

Front end Software Engineer

Lendable • London, UK • May 2023 - May 2024

TypeScript | React | Next | Sass

Improve product flexibility and reduce cost of change by taking proactive approach to modernising and simplifying a complex and neglected codebase.
Reduce customer onboarding steps and increase conversion rate by implementing OpenBanking integration.
Increase customer safety by adding scam prevention features to the application flow.
Share skills and knowledge with team members by being an active participant in Front-End Guild events.
Streamline inter-disciplinary collaboration by reviving an API spec, and adopting tools to generate TypeScript types from it.
Led the rapid development and deployment of a custom static careers site, ensuring zero downtime in recruitment activities while transitioning between ATS providers. Demonstrated exceptional initiative and skill delivering a high-quality and brand consistent UI under tight deadlines and without designed input.

Front end Software Engineer

Kernel Wealth • Auckland, NZ • March 2022 - March 2023

Built static marketing pages with content served from a headless CMS for an efficient and up-to-date user experience through the use of Incremental Static Regeneration.
Improved software quality and stability by writing end to end tests and configuring a Bitbucket pipeline build step to run them.
Precisely translated designs into clean, accessible, agnostic React components that adhere to a strict component composition spec, resulting in a consistent user interface.
Established software patterns that increased flexibility, scalability, and maintainability, such as form handling and branching user flows.
Confer with designers to finalise features and address engineering considerations, resulting in a more user-centred product.
Ensured data-driven decision by developing A/B testing capabilities to assist with validating assumptions about user behaviour.
Enhanced user insights by integrating analytics tools into the front-end.

Full stack Software Engineer

Renti Ltd • Auckland, NZ • Aug 2021 - Nov 2022

Transformed designs into functional React components. Set up pages with SSR to ensured fluid user experience with flows, forms and other functional elements.
Designed and built database schemas, API routes, and resolvers.
Improved team productivity by leading sprint planning, story pointing, elaborating work and scoping MVP for new features, resulting in a more organised and focused development process.

Front end and Automation Engineer

Probity consulting • Auckland, NZ • Jul 2018 - Sept 2020

Quanton Ltd (business acquisition) • Auckland, NZ • Oct 2020 - Aug 2021

React | UiPath | .NET Core | SQL

Workshop with client to scope and build a functional web portal for truck drivers to manage shipping data, including complex forms, file upload/download, CRUD operations, authentication and user permissions.
Design, develop, and deploy automation solutions targeting large-scale ERP software applications. Example: Zespri shipping updates bot - UiPath, Orchestrator. Fully autonomous procedure which scraped data from external carrier websites, and entered data into SAP.
Worked with government agencies in secure environments and with sensitive data including payroll and medical.
Business process re-engineering: Document current business process, extract underlying requirements, assess for improvement opportunities, and present to client.
Conducting technical interviews, candidate selection, and training of junior staff.

Personal life

Please see my portfolio website maxrandle.co.nz for more about me.

Qualifications

Qualification	Institution	Year
Bachelor of Science, Major in Computer Science	University of Auckland	2018
UiPath Expert Developer Certification	UiPath Developer Academy	2019