Max Kaplan
Head Of Staking at Sol Strategies Inc.
Greater Tampa Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMax K is a seasoned crypto software leader and founder with a decade of experience delivering scalable, high-performance systems. He started at Kraken as one of its first engineers and rose to Senior Director of Engineering for Site Reliability & Data Engineering, leading ~60 engineers, cutting trading latency by 75%, supporting 10x growth, and reducing cloud costs by 30%. He founded Orangefin Ventures, built one of Solana’s largest staking providers to $140M AUM, and led its sale to Sol Strategies in 2024. At Edgevana, he grew Solana mainnet services to a $1M+ ARR business and helped launch edgeSOL, a top liquid staking token with about $175M TVL. He currently serves as Head of Staking at Sol Strategies and maintains an active open-source presence, including contributions to a cross-platform Lightning wallet. Based in the Greater Tampa Bay Area, he blends hands-on engineering with strategic staking and infrastructure leadership.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Syracuse University
Github Skills (10)
javascript10
react10
lightning-network9
testing9
mobile-development9
typescripts8
typescript8
typescript-types8
mobx8
api-design7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
lightninglabs/lightning-app
Jan 2018 - Feb 2018
An easy-to-use cross-platform Lightning wallet
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 13 PRs, 16 comments in 25 days
Contributions summary:Max primarily contributed to the front-end and action aspects of the cross-platform Lightning wallet. They added descriptions to payment requests and implemented tests for decoding payment requests. Further contributions involved merging and integrating code changes, which included updating the layout of the channel header and adding IP address functionality. The user also made minor corrections to address linting errors.
lightningwalletcross-platformlightning-networkbitcoin
kaplanmaxe/react-native-stopwatch
Jun 2016 - Aug 2022
Contributions:6 PRs, 46 pushes, 44 branches in 6 years 2 months
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