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Max Kaplan

Software Engineer at Aptos

San Francisco, California

Overview 

Max Kaplan is the Founding Engineer at Aptos Labs and a former employee of Meta. His career highlights include founding Upgrade LLC as CEO and serving as a Tech Lead Manager at Cruise. Currently, he leads the software engineering team at Aptos Labs, focusing on product development and business strategy.

Work Experience 

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Aptos

  • Software Engineer (Founding Team)

    2022 - Current

Aptos is a Web3 startup that builds a scalable layer 1 blockchain.

Raised $350,000,000.00 from Bixin Ventures, Binance Labs and Dragonfly.

aptoslabs.com
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Facebook

  • 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

Stay N' Alive Productions, LLC is a social media marketing firm that provides clients with measurable profits.

staynalive.com
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Cruise

  • 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

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HOVER Inc.

  • 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

Hover is a 3D data and technology company for home improvement and property insurance professionals.

Raised $127,300,000.00 from M2O, Alsop Louie Partners, State Farm Ventures, Standard Industries, Menlo Ventures, Nationwide Mutual Insurance, Guidewire Software, Google Ventures, FinSight Ventures and Travelers Insurance.

hover.to
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Guideline Technologies

  • Senior Software Engineer

    2016 - 2017

Guideline is a retirement plan platform that offers the all-inclusive 401(k) and full-stack solution for growing businesses.

Raised $339,000,000.00 from Greyhound Capital, Xfund, Generation Investment Management, Propel, Marbruck, Future Planet Capital, Felicis and General Atlantic.

guideline.com
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Quirk Healthcare Solutions

  • Director of Technology

    2015 - 2016

Upgrade LLC

  • Founder, CEO

    2009 - 2015

Optimum Health Medical Group

  • VP Business Development

    2011 - 2012

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iSIGHT Partners

  • 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.

iSIGHT Partners specializes in providing cyber threat intelligence services.

Raised $46,298,276.00 from Bessemer Venture Partners.

isightpartners.com
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NHN

  • 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%.

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