Adam Hitchcock
Founding Engineer at Max AI
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAdam Hitchcock is a seasoned software engineer with 14 years of experience building scalable systems across startups and large platforms, currently serving as a Codegeneer in San Francisco. He has led critical product and safety initiatives at Discord and Reddit, designed real-time classification and legal export pipelines, and reduced abuse and spam through pragmatic AI and observability work. As a founding engineer at Max AI and a leader of API and security efforts at Brex, he blends hands-on engineering with cross-functional policy and compliance collaboration. He also founded and ran a dance studio, bringing entrepreneurial energy and community-building experience to technical teams. Known for shipping production-ready telemetry, automation frameworks, and revenue-driving ad systems, he combines deep Python/cloud skills with an unusual specialty in 1930s jazz.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Denison UniversityMS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at William & Mary
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
snk10
nes-emulator10
command-line-tool10
influxdb10
todoist10
isort10
firefox10
progress-bar10
imports10
arcade10
gofmt10
pretty-print10
prometheus10
package-manager10
visualization10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
NorthIsUp/monsterid
Oct 2012 - Jun 2019
deterministically generated avatars in python.
Contributions:4 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 6 years 8 months
pythonavatars
NorthIsMirror/zsh-diff-so-fancy
Nov 2021 - Dec 2024
Contributions:317 pushes, 129 branches in 3 years 2 months
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