# Max Chiu

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Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/maxchiu

blog.chiu.fyi

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Movement Labs
Jan 2025 – Present
whatever my manager asks me to do i ask claude
i'm basically a chatgpt wrapper

### Frontend Engineer @ Aptos Labs
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | Palo Alto, California, United States
i got re-org'd into oblivion 🍵🫖 skill issue ig 🗿
i am sending my severance check to Github Copilot

### Frontend Engineer @ Econia Labs
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023
i made text green or red depending on money up or money down 🚬😮‍💨

### Freelance Full Stack Web3  Software Engineer  (Frontend leaning) @ Unknown
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023
short story long - i added value and made significant contributions to humanity

### Software Engineer, Research, SURF Mentor @ National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States
finding out that the government

### Software Engineer @ Capital One
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
i definitely did not leave work at 1pm to go for a bike ride because the weather was good

### Data Scientist and Web Developer @ University of Maryland
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
the world if the us government moved 1% of military budget to funding research at public institutions: ✧˖°.🌃🔭🌌🚀🛰️🧑🏽‍🚀📡🐾🌐🛸🪽☆⋆｡𖦹°‧★

### libGDX Game Developer @ Montgomery College
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Germantown, Maryland, United States
this shit humbled me i'm going to go back to writing div tags and asking for a 6 figure salary because displaying text is definitely more valuable than serving data at 0.00001 ms speeds and my two brain cells can't wrap around object oriented programming

### Computer Science and Mathematics Tutor @ Montgomery College
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Germantown, Maryland, United States
damn these people actually want to learn -- lowkey fulfilling

### Lead Code Sensei @ Code Ninjas
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Germantown, Maryland, United States
i told my boss that i was gonna go tutor adults (instead of children while at < minimum wage) and then she promoted me thinking that was gonna make me stay 🫵😂

### Code Sensei @ Code Ninjas
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Germantown, Maryland, United States


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
University of Maryland

### Magnet Program - Science in Math, Computer Science, Computer Science
Poolesville High School

### Associate of Arts - AA in Computer Science and Technologies
Montgomery College


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/max-chiu
- Website: https://blog.chiu.fyi/

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Source: https://flows.cv/maxchiu
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/maxchiu/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-04-01