Max Brodeur-urbas
Co-Founder & CEO at Gumloop
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolMax Brodeur-urbas is a founder and engineering leader with eight years of software experience, currently co-founding and leading Gumloop (YC W24) from San Francisco. He blends hands-on systems and DevOps expertise from time at Microsoft—working on CBL-Mariner and contributing to the microsoft/azurelinux project—with product-stage startup execution building AgentHub. Known for improving OS build processes, dependency management, and CVE remediation, he brings a pragmatic focus on stability and security to platform engineering. A competitive programming organizer at McGill, he pairs algorithmic rigor with applied systems work, enabling fast iteration and clean technical tradeoffs. Max combines founder-level product instincts with deep low-level engineering chops, often moving between code, infrastructure, and go-to-market priorities.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
DEC Pure and Applied Sciences, DEC Pure and Applied Sciences at Marianopolis CollegeBachelors Software Engineering, Bachelors Software Engineering at McGill University
English, French
Github Skills (14)
configuration-management10
azure10
linux10
bash10
go10
devops10
package-management10
scripting10
build-automation10
security9
docker8
kubernetes8
kubernetes-pods8
dockers8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/azurelinux
Sep 2021 - Sep 2022
Linux OS for Azure 1P services and edge appliances
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:66 reviews, 92 commits, 147 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Max primarily focuses on integrating and upgrading various software packages within the Azure Linux environment, demonstrating a strong understanding of build processes and dependencies. Their contributions include enabling and configuring components like Rook, updating packages like expat, parted, man-db, lvm2, node-problem-detector, MariaDB, and libarchive. They also actively manage configurations, address CVE vulnerabilities, and modify build scripts, indicating a focus on system stability, security, and efficient package management.
cdrappliancesvmslinux-oslinux
milo-sobral/NeurophFramework
Nov 2020 - Nov 2020
Neuroph is an educational neural network framework in Java
Contributions:8 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
javaneural-networkmachine-learning
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