# Max Shi > Software Engineer @ Adaptive Security Location: New York, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/maxshi Hello! I am a senior full-stack web developer with most experience with Typescript-based frontend frameworks such as React and Angular, as well as backends in Java Spring and Python. I've also started to work closely with applications of LLMs to products, building both agentic workflows and tooling as well as deterministic LLM chaining to create meaningful products. My working philosophy is a focus on business-level and big-picture understanding of the software engineering work I accomplish, always ensuring the work I do has impact and contributes to the larger vision. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Adaptive Security Jan 2025 – Present | New York, New York, United States - Prototyped, built, and shipped through the early access program an agentic assistant for CISOs that manage phishing/training campaign creation and reporting queries. - Led UX of scenario library revamp with unified filters, collections, and previews to improve admin scenario discovery. - Overhauled phishing reporting with attack vector analytics across ClickHouse and UI dashboards. - Shipped attachment-based phishing scenarios with rich previews and reporting coverage. ### Software Engineer @ Adaptive Security Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | New York, New York, United States - Led implementation for the Executive Risk Report feature, orchestrating LLM OSINT gathering, parsing, and display UX between admins and executives. - Built UX and prompt engineering for AI Content Creator, the first of its kind to generate full training content from a single prompt. - Created the OSINT Phishing Scenario generator, allowing gathered OSINT to deeply personalize phishing scenarios to company data to prepare for AI attacks. - Shipped an internal AI workflows platform with typed outputs, validation, and iteration to enable reusable, reliable automation across eng and product. Powered by Temporal, backed by S3. - Delivered the admin dashboard revamp with core metrics, widgets, and data integrations for executive visibility. ### Software Engineer @ Paradigm Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | New York, New York, United States Architected React rebuild of frontend application, establishing patterns around Redux, integration testing, and Nx usage across three teams in monorepo, increasing test coverage from 40% to 95% and cutting legacy Vue2 product scope to reduce code footprint by >70% Supported new frontend by establishing front-end guild, gathering engineers across three teams to create frontend onboarding documentation to codify design patterns Continued guild to coordinate design and engineering to develop a design system with Storybook and Chromatic, becoming the tech lead for the company’s design rebrand and managing visual regression, testing, and feature flagging Implemented Datadog integration to track and monitor errors, database and web vitals performance through APM, as well as inform product decisions through user journey tracking, user retention funnels, and application heatmaps in RUM Integrated appointment scheduling data from 7 practices into patient recruitment app consuming Kafka messages, enabling prioritization of patients for in-person trial intervention Migrated 7 applications with helm, k8s, and AWS (Cloudfront, EC2) in domain rebrand from legacy acquired domain to new Paradigm.inc domain to centralize customer messaging Introduced engineering design doc and sprint kickoff processes to address process gap, better inform product timelines and estimates, and drive software engineering excellence Led the inception, development, and organizational standard for algorithmic coding assessment, creating format, establishing standard rubric, coordinating interview leading and shadowing, and contributing to hiring committees for 30+ candidates across L3-L5 roles. ### Software Engineer @ Orchard Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Manhattan, New York, United States Led project with over 40 internal stakeholders to develop partner program to drive estimated ~$1M/year revenue on rejected leads Improved team productivity by pushing team for better test coverage and pioneering “project retros” to drive knowledge sharing Onboarded fellow new-grad software engineers onto the team, with weekly pairing and constructive pull request feedback Coordinated across business, product, and design to implement mortgage pre-qualification intake logic and proprietary calculation logic Developed Datadog monitoring to ensure vigilance in critical business workflows within team-owned projects and systems ### Course Assistant @ Stevens Institute of Technology Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Hoboken, New Jersey, United States Held Course Assistant position at Stevens Institute of Technology for six semesters. Taught CS115, CS284, CS385, CS334, CS392, CS492. ### Technology Internal Audit Summer Analyst @ Goldman Sachs Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Manhattan, New York, United States Assessed controls in 5 different systems within the Global Markets FICC technology space Led stakeholder and team discussion meetings to communicate findings and remediation plans with effective challenge Created materials to uplift the Continuous Monitoring process regarding data presentation and new agile framework Diagnosed issues and remediations in 3 systems with code reviews (CR) and developed feedback to streamline CR process ### Software Developer Intern @ TD Ameritrade Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Jersey City, New Jersey, United States Participated in a 14-week Software Developer Intern program as an active member of 1 of 2 development teams on the Mobile Trading Platform. Developed robust consumer-facing features in the trading platform available to TDA's customers, such as responsive frontend styling, new user interface components, and service connections to backend products. Contributed to daily scrum stand-ups, biweekly IPMs, and pair programming sessions with senior developers. Developed in Javascript, React, SCSS, and Express, using concepts of test-driven development and dependency injection. Programmed in pairs with other interns and developers to push 40+ stories and 65+ commits to production codebase. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science Stevens Institute of Technology Jan 2018 – Jan 2022 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/max-shi - GitHub: https://github.com/smax253 - Website: https://maxshi.me --- Source: https://flows.cv/maxshi JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/maxshi/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-20