# Max Pleaner

> Software

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/maxpleaner

Versatile full stack software engineer with extensive small / mid size startup experience (2014-present) and specialist skills in 3D automation.

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Skills
• Backend: Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Python, Golang, C#, Elixir
• Frontend: JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Three.js, p5.js, Browser automation
• Database: SQL, Redis, InfluxDB
• Deployment: AWS, Google Cloud (GCS), Supabase, Nginx, Docker, self-hosting
• AI / ML: ComfyUI, CrewAI, RunPod, Cursor, Meshy
• 3D & Technical Art: SketchUp, Blender, Houdini, TouchDesigner (plugin development), Unity, Unreal, Godot, GLSL, Photoshop

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Dandy
Jan 2026 – Present

### Senior Software Engineer, 3D automation & tools @ HOVER Inc.
Jan 2019 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Pipeline development - converting photos and LiDAR data to 3D models and measurements
- Developed internal orchestration tools for 3D production.
- Modeling tools and visualizers in Blender, Sketchup, and Three.js / React / Typescript
- Lead developer on Interiors product
- Implementation and ownership from initial prototype stage to substantial enterprise deals
- Devised standardized geometric schema (structured representation) for home interiors
- Auto-tagging (via algorithms and integrating ML data), measurement extraction, and validations
- Conversion of scanned geometry to parametric representations for integrations with industry- leading insurance platforms (Xactimate, Cotality) using headless Three.js processors. Worked directly with their teams on bug reports and feature requests that I submitted
- Automatic generation of top-down floorplan images from 3D models using Three.js
- General full-stack feature development in Ruby / Rails and Typescript / React spanning 10+ repos

### Software Engineer, Analytics lead @ EdCast
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Mountain View, California
- Lead analytics developer: captured all system / user events in InfluxDB and feeding into a Tableau data set (which customers purchased access to)
- Scalable, fault-tolerant architecture with Golang WAL microservice. Cardinality and retention policy optimizations.
- Years after leaving the company, previous coworkers told me my code is still running flawlessly.
- General backend development on Educational Technology / LXP platform (Rails, SQL)

### Software Engineer @ Atipica
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco
- General full stack feature development on Job applicant tracking software (Rails)
- Resume-parsing data analytics using Elasticsearch
- Acceptance test suite development using Selenium automated browser

### Principal Backend Developer @ Timeset
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Emeryville
- Sole backend developer on social media / photo-sharing mobile app
- Greenfield Rails application, implementing API endpoints according to specification (replacing a Parse backend).
- Multi-environment AWS deployment.

### Software Engineer @ Sobrr.life
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco
- General Rails full-stack developer on social media / photo sharing mobile app
- Built an admin interface to enable boosting of posts, removal of obscene public content, and banning users.
- AWS administration and deployment

### Chief of Staff @ Santa Cruz City Council Member Micah Posner
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Santa Cruz, CA
- Research and participation in planning and advisory sessions on policy topics, with a focus on transportation, healthcare, and homelessness
- Organized community forums and media production, including email and radio

### Voter Registration Canvasser @ Santa Cruz County Democratic Central Committee
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012
Registered people to vote on the street on behalf of democratic party

### Petition Circulator @ Bay Area Petitions
Jan 2010 – Jan 2012
- Ensured a high legal validity rate among signatures gathered.
- Petitioned for dozens of issues by engaging pedestrians.

### Fundraiser @ Grassroots Campaigns
Jan 2009 – Jan 2009 | San Francisco
- Canvassed donations for non profits

### Sandwich Maker @ Ike's Place
Jan 2008 – Jan 2008 | San Francisco
- Sandwich maker at the original Ike's in San Francisco, back when there was only one location (now there are over 100).

### Marketing Department Intern @ Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation
Jan 2007 – Jan 2007 | San Francisco
- Nonprofit organization dedicated to furthering education about the Jewish Partisans of WWII.


## Education
### Houdini For Games - Intro To World Creation
Vertex School
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020

### Web Development & Computer Programming
App Academy
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014

### Bachelor of Arts in Politics
University of California, Santa Cruz
Jan 2008 – Jan 2013

### Web development fundamentals
CodeUnion
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/maxpleaner
- Website: http://maxpleaner.com

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Last updated: 2026-03-22