Max Chu
Senior Software Engineer at Meta
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMax Chu is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building high-impact mobile and backend systems, currently shaping applied AI products and commerce experiences at Meta in New York. He has driven revenue-generating initiatives across Facebook Subscriptions, Creator & Brand Partnership Ads, and Marketplace, while shipping native iOS/Android features and leading cross-functional engineering work. Max’s background spans low-level networking and SDN contributions—he fixed C++ compilation and P4 runtime issues in the open-source Stratum switch OS—through to large-scale AWS Java microservices and React/TypeScript front ends at Amazon. Comfortable across systems, mobile, and backend domains, he pairs pragmatic product focus with deep technical troubleshooting. His Cornell CS and Economics training and prior roles in finance (Citadel) and open-networking give him a rare mix of product, infrastructure, and protocol-level expertise. Colleagues know him for shipping durable solutions and for a lighthearted online persona as a “professional funposter” on GitHub.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Computer Science, Economics, minor in Law & Society, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Computer Science, Economics, minor in Law & Society at Cornell UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Hunter College High School
English, Chinese, French
Github Skills (8)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
p4v8
p4api8
p4lang8
p4a8
grpc7
network-programming6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
stratum/stratum
Mar 2019 - Jan 2023
Stratum is an open source silicon-independent switch operating system for software defined networks.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 761 reviews, 903 commits in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Max primarily focused on fixing compile errors in the hal/bcm subtree, removing dependencies, and inferring key types. Their contributions involved modifying C++ code within the stratum/hal/lib/bcm directory to address compilation issues and to make improvements related to collection signatures. They also worked on tasks related to the p4c fpm backend, including adding IPv6 DST and SRC field types, and addressing annotations. The user also implemented changes in the P4 runtime.
silicondefinedbroadcomoperating-systemgnmi
pudelkoM/MoonWire
Jun 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:67 commits, 36 pushes, 3 branches in 3 months
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