# Max Rothman > Experienced software engineer - Open to part-time and temporary contracts, early-stage startups, fractional staff engineer roles, and other get-it-done problem-solving in Python, JS/TS, Terraform, Clojure, and more. Location: Somerville, Massachusetts, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/maxrothman "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. I've done it all: from frontend to backend to infrastructure, projects user-facing to architectural, and codebases from new to old. I've led projects from inception to completion and I know how to work with stakeholders across the org to tailor solutions to business needs. So whether it's a demo for a startup, a big migration at an established company, or solving that one pain point that's always just out of reach, I can help you get it done. I have a particular specialty in healthcare, education, and other high-compliance verticals. If you're a new startup trying to navigate the regulatory space with minimal overhead, let's talk! ## Work Experience ### Freelance Software Engineer @ Freelance Jan 2023 – Present 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. ### Principal Engineer & Architect @ Klezmer Archive Project Jan 2019 – Present | 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 ### Senior Software Engineer @ OneStudyTeam Jan 2020 – Jan 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 ### Senior Software Engineer @ Bento Jan 2019 – Jan 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 ### Software Engineer @ CollegeVine Jan 2018 – Jan 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 ### Software Engineer @ Pluralsight Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater Boston Area - Worked with product and design to build features for analytics dashboard with Python REST API backend and React/Redux frontend backed by PostgreSQL and RabbitMQ - Introduced new retrospective and postmortem processes - Aided and trained peers in operations in AWS - Participated in architecture design of loosely-coupled distributed system - Advocated for security, continuous integration, and automated testing ### System Reliability Engineer @ edX Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 | Cambridge, MA - Maintained multiple codebases for infrastucture- and configuration-as-code - Rationalized infrastructure and build automation to improve reliability and improve engineer efficiency, maintaining quality user experience - Deployed and maintained web infrastructure in AWS supporting tens of thousands of requests per minute - Advocated for open-source users ### System Engineer @ Vecna Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Cambridge, MA - Managed 100+ servers supporting 30+ web stacks in a HIPAA-compliant environment - Represented Ops on a cross-departmental team working towards continuous integration - Automated web stack creation and deployment using Jenkins/go-cd + Python & Bash ### Technical Support @ Vecna Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Cambridge, MA - Managed 20+ client relationships - Created client database and querying tool in Python - Automated common tasks including report creation, certificate renewal ### AV Student Worker @ Beloit College Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 ## Education ### Physics in Mechanical systems, dynamics, electronics, thermodynamics Beloit College Jan 2008 – Jan 2012 ### Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Physics Beloit College Jan 2008 – Jan 2012 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/max-rothman-22498b53 --- Source: https://flows.cv/maxrothman JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/maxrothman/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22