# Max Sicherman

> Software Engineer @ State Affairs

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

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ State Affairs
Jan 2025 – Present

### Software Engineer @ Cisco
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco, California, United States
- Created admin portal UI for account + user info using Next.js, styling with Tailwind CSS.
- Developed account management FastAPI backend, leveraging event-driven architecture via AWS SQS and EventBridge.
- Onboarded AppDynamics’ User Management service to Cisco’s Cloud Observability Platform and maintain the service’s K8s + Helm + Flux deployment infrastructure.
- Created cell health dashboard displayed on TVs in Bay Area offices using jQuery and CSS.
- Developed a Webex chatbot in Node.js for retrieving user/tenant info.
- Assumed ownership of IAM service’s Flask API security implementation, addressing CORS and CSP vulnerabilities.

### SDE Intern @ Amazon
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Arlington, Virginia, United States
- Validated application structure through filesystem and TOML parsing in Python.
- Enhanced a C++ CLI to display compressed application details on a multimodal device.
- Developed a CLI tool in Rust to compress, decompress, and push files to applications.
- Refactored logic in an application building script from CMake to Python to support non-CMake build apps.

### Electrical Engineering Intern @ MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Lexington, Massachusetts, United States
-Researched and compared various methods of state estimation. 
-Utilized MATLAB and multivariate statistical analysis to develop an Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) for approximating the position of a platform relative to a base radar. 
-Modeled and simulated piloted aircraft motion and noisy radar measurements and inputted these measurements into my EKF. 
-Analyzed and presented the filtered results to my division to facilitate project advancement.

### Engineering Intern @ The Adept Group Limited, Inc.
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Los Angeles, California, United States
-Designed, tested, and optimized the electrical system of a client’s sustainability project. 
-Reduced the time required for the product to defrost a large frozen turkey from 12 to 2 hours without increasing energy usage. 
-Completed data acquisition of thermocouple data using TracerDAQ software.
-Analyzed and transferred data in Excel.


## Education
### Electrical and Electronics Engineering
UCLA


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/max-sicherman

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Last updated: 2026-04-10