Brandon Max
Cofounder, CTO at Pursuit
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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Top SchoolBrandon Max is a seasoned software engineer and startup CTO with 12 years of experience building web and backend systems, currently cofounder and CTO at Pursuit and Developer Advocate at LlamaIndex. He brings a full-stack skillset spanning PHP, databases, front-end technologies and SEO, with past senior and staff roles at Adobe, Olo, and Wisely. Brandon has entrepreneurial chops—co-founding Listener.fm to automate podcast post-production with AI—and a history of shipping production services and integrations across payment, cloud, and content platforms. Based in Ann Arbor and grounded by a Computer Science degree from Michigan State, he blends practical engineering with product instincts and developer evangelism. Notably, he balances hands-on system design with community-facing work, building Pursuit while helping grow LlamaIndex’s developer ecosystem.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Michigan State University
English
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Github Skills (143)
vector-database10
composer10
javascript10
bundle10
php-framework10
fine-tuning10
gpt10
database10
application10
dependency-manager10
sqlite10
symfony-bundle10
vue10
symfony10
cordova10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
rabaut/bundl
Jan 2015 - Nov 2017
Contributions:1 push, 1 comment in 2 years 10 months
bmax/useprotection
Feb 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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