Max Kaplan

Software Engineer (Founding Team)

2022 - Current

Software Engineer

2021 - 2022

Cryptocurrency, distributed systems, Diem, blockchain, infrastructure Foundational blockchain infrastructure powering experiences across Meta AWS, Git, Kubernetes, Rust, Hack, Python, Snowflake, MySQL, Postgres

Tech Lead Manager, Software Engineer

2018 - 2020

• Saved millions on annual cloud spend. • Led multiple teams. Responsible for year-long department initiatives/OKRs, mentoring, and career growth. • Architected/created one of the largest scale services at Cruise: versioning, delivery, and CDN system (backend+CLI) for map assets, with daily volume in the petabytes, peaking at terabytes per second, tens of thousands RPS. • Multiple patents. Docker, Git, Go, Node.js, Python, PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS, GCP, Terraform, Vault, Kubernetes

Senior Software Engineer, Team Lead

2017 - 2018

• Identifying and mitigating performance/scalability bottlenecks in existing code during a period of exponential scaling/growth - unblocked multiple services. • Migrated two large monolithic apps into micro-services, improving scalability. • Pushed testing culture, with measurable impacts across teams. • Built write-once-run-anywhere server/worker platform for running ML models at scale (still in use). Docker, Git, Rails, Node, Python, React, Redis, Tensorflow, PostgreSQL, AWS, Webpack

Senior Software Engineer

2016 - 2017

Director of Technology

2015 - 2016

Founder, CEO

2009 - 2015

VP Business Development

2011 - 2012

Analyst (Contractor)

2011 - 2011

Duties and Responsibilities: • Analyze international cybercrime markets to identify, prevent, and mitigate electronic crime. • Create thorough profiles for persons of interest to befriend, identify, and locate them. Accomplishments: • Implemented sample sharing initiative, reducing costs while opening access to previously unobtainable malware. • Designed multiple novel honeypots to aid in intelligence gathering.

Team Lead (NCIKU)

2010 - 2010

NCIKU is a division of NHN Corp, an internet service multinational based in South Korea. Duties and Responsibilities: • Conceptualize and prototype ideas for increasing user retention and page views. • Lead a cross-departmental team for design and development of new language learning products. • Provide strategic competitor analysis of the global search engine market. Accomplishments: • Developed marketing software for a major Chinese social network, converting over 300,000 target users. • Successfully raised user retention 10% and daily page views per user 15%.