Max Chen
Head Of Architecture at Curioso
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolMax Chen is a Head of Architecture with 11 years of experience designing scalable backend systems and production ML services, currently leading architecture at Curioso from San Jose. He brings hands-on expertise across Python, PHP, Go, Java, and JavaScript, and deep operational familiarity with Linux, Docker/K8s, GCP/AWS, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis and caching layers. Previously he progressed from software engineer to senior engineering manager and ML technical lead at Epic for Kids, driving backend reliability and machine learning deployments that supported rapid product growth. Early roles at Shmoop and Yahoo honed his full-stack and data-modeling skills, including building a MySQL-backed tool tracking ~10,000 projects and optimizing MongoDB query patterns to cut latency and memory use. Max blends strategic leadership with practical engineering—comfortable jumping into code, on-call rotations, and devops—to turn research models into resilient, production-ready services. An unconventional strength is his sociology BA background, which informs his ability to translate cross-functional stakeholder needs into effective technical designs.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BA Sociology, BA Sociology at University of California, BerkeleyGithub contributions (5)
stegrex/tree-python
Aug 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:3 commits, 3 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
stegrex/frustratio
Feb 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:10 pushes, 2 branches, 2 tags in 6 months
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