- Maximilian Craig
- About Me
- Employment History
- Software Engineer — Macquarie Group
- Platform Engineer — ANZ Bank
- Teaching Associate — Monash University
- Projects
- Giffy
- Learning Vietnamese Numbers
- Esoteric Puzzles
- Anki Heisig Card Generator
- Hobbies
- Hiking
- Koyasan Choishi-Michi Pilgrimage
- Summit of Cradle Mountain and Circuit of Dove Lake
- The Great North Walk
- Self-Hosting
- Specs
#Maximilian Craig
#About Me
👋 I’m Max, a Software Engineer based in Sydney. I’ve lived my entire life in Melbourne, however I have moved up to pursue a career in the Software Engineering industry. Welcome!
While you’re stopping by, feel free to check out my blog.
#Employment History
#Software Engineer — Macquarie Group
Sydney, Australia · Mar 2026 – Present
Working within the Software Development Lifecycle Team developing automated processes for provisioning GitHub Repositories and GitHub Advanced Security.
#Platform Engineer — ANZ Bank
Melbourne, Australia · Jan 2024 – Jan 2026
- Developed Kubernetes operators for automatic provisioning and lifecycle management of cloud infrastructure.
- Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines for deploying cloud-native applications.
- Investigated and implemented multi-region architectures to meet financial risk and resiliency requirements.
- Designed and executed automated migrations across 20,000+ configuration files.
#Teaching Associate — Monash University
Melbourne, Australia · Mar 2023 – Feb 2025
- Taught FIT1045: Introduction to Programming and FIT1008: Introduction to Computer Science.
- Led weekly workshops, supporting and teaching course material to 200+ students.
- Ran weekly consultations and oversaw the invigilation and marking of assessments.
- Achieved 95% student satisfaction.
#Projects
#Giffy
A multipurpose Discord bot designed to allow the manipulation, tagging, archiving and retrieval of gifs
#Learning Vietnamese Numbers
A website to help you practice saying and reading Vietnamese numbers from 1-1,000
#Esoteric Puzzles
Esoteric Puzzle
A puzzle that is unique, unusual, or deliberately hard to understand, often requiring niche knowledge, unconventional thinking, or hidden rules to solve.
#Anki Heisig Card Generator
A Program for automatically generating Anki flashcards relating to Kanji from Remembering the Kanji by James Heisig.
#Hobbies
#Hiking
I love to hike when I get the chance! Noteable hikes I’ve done include
#Koyasan Choishi-Michi Pilgrimage
A 24 km trail that connects the town of Kudoyama to Koyasan, the founding place of the largest branch of Buddhism, and home to Okunoin Cemetery, the largest in Japan.
#Summit of Cradle Mountain and Circuit of Dove Lake
A mountain located within the Central Highlands of Tasmania, including a 12km loop with a summit 1,545m above sea level.
#The Great North Walk
The Great North Walk is a 260km track that stretches from Sydney to Newcastle. I’ve completed parts of this trail and highly reccomend it!
#Self-Hosting
I currently run a Home Server where I self-host applications, games, and run tests.
- Proxmox is used to manage the deployment of VMs and Containers
- Tailscale is used to remotely access my VMs
I’m currently self-hosting
- A Jellyfin home media server
- A self hosted OneDrive using OpenMediaVault
- Minecraft servers via MineOS
- Network Wide Ad Blocking via Pi-hole
#Specs
| Component | Details |
|---|---|
| CPU | AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core (12 Threads) |
| RAM | 32 GB DDR4 |
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 |
| Storage | 2x 4TB Seagate IronWolf HDD, 500GB Samsung 970 EVO M.2 NVMe |
| Hypervisor | Proxmox VE 8.3.0 |
| Kernel | Linux 6.8.12-4-pve |