Summary
Max 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