Summary
Max Buck is a seasoned full-stack software engineer with 11 years of experience building production systems across startups and established companies, currently working in Columbus, Ohio. He’s shipped web and mobile products using Python/Django, Ruby on Rails, React/React Native, PostgreSQL, and AWS, and has led teams as an engineering manager and lead engineer focused on compliance and onboarding workflows. Max combines hands-on coding with people leadership—mentoring engineers, running 1:1s, and managing cross-team integrations—while still contributing as a full-time engineer. His background includes security stewardship and SSO migrations as well as NLP-backed data extraction and fraud-prevention features, reflecting a strong focus on secure, data-driven systems. He’s built and open-sourced tooling for APIs (NeoAPI) and has experience scaling distributed Docker deployments and CI/CD infrastructure. Pragmatic and curious, Max pairs product-minded engineering with operational discipline to turn complex requirements into reliable, auditable software.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer and Information Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer and Information Science at The Ohio State University
St. Ignatius High School