Max Burstein
Member Of Technical Staff at OpenAI
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMax Burstein is a seasoned web application developer and engineering leader with 14 years of experience building scalable, production-grade systems across startups and large tech teams in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has driven end-to-end initiatives from full-stack product launches to cross-team infrastructure migrations—most recently shaping strategy and global scalability at Cruise before joining OpenAI as a Member of Technical Staff. Max’s background spans distributed systems, content recommendation, media pipelines, and real-time geolocation and payment services, combining hands-on engineering with team leadership. He is equally comfortable architecting backend platforms and optimizing frontend performance, and he brings a pragmatic focus on reliability and revenue impact. Known for learning new technologies quickly, he has a track record of translating ambiguous problems into practical, high-impact solutions.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Information Technology, Bachelor of Science (BS) Information Technology at University of Central Florida
Github Skills (85)
react-redux10
django-blog10
shortest-path-algorithm10
herokuapp10
shortest-path10
django9
charts9
tornado9
dijkstra9
heroku9
data-structures9
java9
helm8
bubble8
python8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mburst/resume
Apr 2016 - Nov 2024
Contributions:1 push in 8 years 8 months
mburst/burstolio
Mar 2012 - Nov 2022
My Django based blog running off of Heroku and Tornado
Contributions:308 commits, 14 pushes in 10 years 10 months
herokupythondjangodjango-blogtornado
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