# Max Goodhart

> Generalist Software Engineer

Location: Portland, Oregon, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/maxgoodhart

I'm a generalist drawn to interfaces between people, creativity, and tech. I strive to delight users and treat them with integrity. 

Specialties:
[Code] JS (Browser & Node), TypeScript, Python, Go, C, C++, Haskell
[Design] Figma, Sketch, Inkscape, GIMP, Blender
[Tools] Debian/Ubuntu, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, SaltStack, KVM

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Discord
Jan 2021 – Present

### Senior Software Engineer @ Dialup
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Remote
Developed real-time social voice apps across the stack, including web, native, react-native, and backend development. Projects included WebRTC tooling (client and server) and payments functionality.

### Staff Software Engineer @ Patreon
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020
Championed engineering excellence and culture. Started internal Developer Experience team. Partnered with frontend, backend, and infra core teams to improve internal dev tool performance, usability, and security. Mentored teammates in technical and social development through multiple promotions. Designed creative cross-disciplinary interview questions. Interviewed and hired outstanding engineers. Built full-stack internal content moderation tools. Organized "eng learning" weekly team-wide knowledge sharing meetings. Persuaded ~40% of company to don silly slack avatars for Halloween 2019.

### Software Engineer @ Keybase
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017
Developed desktop (electron) and mobile (react-native) clients for encrypted chat and file sharing in a shared React codebase. Overhauled app state management structure. Implemented automated visual diffing of UI screenshots during code review process.

### Co-Founder @ Euphoria
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016
Built an open source chat community platform from the ground up. Designed and implemented web frontend for both desktop and mobile using React. Organized community spaces & drafted policy. Iterated on original designs for threaded real-time chat. Created visual brand identity.

### Frontend Engineer @ Reddit, Inc.
Jan 2011 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco, CA
Designed and implemented a variety of new features and improvements to reddit. Improved frontend and backend tools. Reviewed and merged open source pull requests. Participated in community management and wrote public blog posts. Untangled legacy code debt. Drew custom alien avatars for new employees. Recruited and developed hiring process for frontend engineers.

### JavaScript Engineer @ meebo
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | Mountain View, CA
I developed elegant sharing tools for the web.


## Education
### B.S. in Computer Science
Portland State University
Jan 2006 – Jan 2010

### Portland Community College
Jan 2004 – Jan 2006


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/maxgoodhart
- Website: http://chromako.de

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Last updated: 2026-03-22