Max Dunn
Staff Platform Security Engineer
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMax Dunn is a Senior Platform Security Engineer based in Seattle with nine years of experience building secure infrastructure, developer enablement tools, and operational clarity across fast-moving environments. He has progressed through multiple engineering roles at The Trade Desk since 2020, moving from software engineering into senior platform security leadership, and previously built embedded and robotics software at Olis Robotics. Max focuses on making secure practices the path of least resistance while designing systems that detect and remediate failures before they impact users. His background in electrical and computer engineering informs a pragmatic, systems-oriented approach to security and reliability. Outside of security, he brings hands-on operational empathy from earlier roles as an e-bike mechanic and technical team member, which helps him balance developer workflows with real-world maintainability.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Redmond High SchoolBachelor’s Degree Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Colorado Boulder
English, Spanish
Github Skills (27)
performance-monitor10
httpclientfactory10
semantic-versioning9
grpc8
monitoring8
dependency-management7
dotnet7
prometheus7
neo4j6
batch5
aws5
automation5
azure-active-directory5
graph5
azuread5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
colchuck-ai/ai-resource-manager
Aug 2025 - Feb 2026
Package manager for AI rules and prompts with semantic versioning and automatic distribution to AI tools.
Contributions:2 reviews, 108 PRs, 347 pushes in 6 months
aipackage-managersemantic-versioningai-assistantai-tools
jomadu/tense-mantis
Nov 2021 - Nov 2022
Contributions:6 PRs, 9 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year
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