"You can give [Max] any problem statement and he doesn't bat an eye -- he just gets it done." "Thrives in ambiguity and consistently delivers" I'm an experienced software engineer with more than a decade in the industry. I work with orgs large and small to solve the problems they don't have capacity for internally.

2023 — NowFreelanceFreelance Software Engineer

2023 — Now

Selected experience

Worked with early-stage truck fleet management to develop product suite including traditional full-stack and AI/LLM features. Assisted with a drop-everything short-deadline migration from C# to NodeJS, infrastructure & operations, and prototyping and buliding new AI features, API integrations, and user-facing products.

Worked with a clinical trials startup to ideate, specify, and develop multiple MVPs, including a traditional web application, Chrome extension, and AI product. Assisted with navigating HIPAA compliance, matching product to market needs, and making fundamental technology decisions.

2019 — NowKlezmer Archive ProjectPrincipal Engineer & Architect

2019 — Now

Remote

Co-founded digital humanities knowledge graph project that has won two DGHAG grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities

Determined technical strategy and architected system to meet extremely tight budgetary constraints while providing excellent UX and reliability (for design, see white paper appendix A (https://tinyurl.com/4d7veubx) and presentation video (https://youtu.be/BE2TgJ20qbc?si=JfSwgTVB7faar9Dh)

Upskilled on first-order logic systems, knowledge graphs, RDF, etc. to contribute to ontology creation and bridge gap between dedicated logician and domain experts

Significant stakeholder and contributor to team process and and hiring decisions

Completed multiple large semi-automated data cleaning efforts via human-in-the-loop method, saving domain experts hundreds of hours of manual work

2020 — 2022OneStudyTeamSenior Software Engineer

2020 — 2022

Became the sole SME on a business-critical system within first 6 months of tenure

Led a newly-formed team to support the system, ensuring business continuity by training team members to maintain and improve the system

Designed and led implementation on greenfield 2-way messaging integration

Advocated for architecture changes, process improvements, and priorities across engineering org, including to management, SRE, architecture, and across software teams

2019 — 2020BentoSenior Software Engineer

2019 — 2020

Greater Boston Area

Designed flexible event-based system for responding to external webhooks

Built architecture strategy for splitting up a monolith into a suite of microservices while keeping system complexity under control

Introduced cultural initiatives including a tech talk series and dedicated R&D time

2018 — 2019CollegeVineSoftware Engineer

2018 — 2019

Greater Boston Area

Advocated for users and worked with product and design to build broad set of high-quality features in Haskell backend, Purescript frontend, backed by PostgreSQL

Became productive in Haskell and Purescript with no prior functional programming experience

Led working group to promote just culture and blameless postmortems

"Trained peers to fish" with AWS, Terraform, Python, DevOps culture. Example presentation: https://terraform-pres.netlify.com/everything-about-terraform/terraform.html

Education

2008 — 2012

Beloit College

Physics

2008 — 2012

Beloit College

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)

2008 — 2012

Experience+

Education

Physics

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)