Summary
Max Chi is a Senior Cloud Engineer with eight years of experience building backend services, APIs, embedded software, and networking features across consumer and infrastructure products. A Purdue Computer Engineering graduate, he has shipped production systems at companies from Plume and Bowers & Wilkins to Facebook, Route, Bitly, and now BrightAI, demonstrating fluency across C, Python, and cloud-native stacks. He pairs low-level embedded expertise—optimizing memory and packet-processing on WiFi hardware—with large-scale backend and API development, making him comfortable at both firmware and cloud layers. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he has reduced platform resource use and improved network validation reliability through protocol-aware implementations. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Max is self-directed, communicative, and adept at translating hardware constraints into reliable, testable cloud-integrated solutions.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering at Purdue University
Chinese