Max Buchan
Senior Software Engineer at Ramp
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMax Buchan is a Senior Software Engineer based in Palo Alto with eight years of experience building product-focused frontends and full-stack systems for startups and acquisitions. He’s shipped production React and Flutter apps, led frontend teams, and architected AI-powered features like few-shot learning and OpenAI-driven Chrome extensions that accelerate customer support workflows. As a founding frontend engineer at Cleanlab (acquired by Handshake) and a senior engineer at Ramp, he pairs rapid prototyping with production reliability across web and mobile. His background in geophysics and early entrepreneurial success raising capital and running oil investments gives him a pragmatic, data-driven approach to problem solving and risk. Max is comfortable across languages and stacks—from Python test automation and WebSockets to AWS, Firebase, and gRPC—making him a versatile contributor on product and infrastructure challenges.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Geophysics and Computer Science minor, Bachelor's degree, Geophysics and Computer Science minor at University of California, BerkeleyAdvanced Diploma, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, Advanced Diploma, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at Incarnate Word Academy
Github Skills (45)
data-labeling10
dataset-generation10
multilabel-classification10
data-quality10
labeling10
data-exploration10
data-validation10
operation10
data-science10
classification10
annotations10
crowdsourcing10
data-manipulation10
dataops10
machine-learning10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
maxbuchan/lettertest
Nov 2018 - Jan 2020
Contributions:111 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
maxbuchan/viv
Oct 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:113 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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