Max Fang
CEO & Co-founder at Lexe
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolMax Fang is a Bitcoin-native entrepreneur and engineer with 12 years of experience building freedom-enhancing crypto products and communities. As CEO and co-founder of Lexe, he focuses on making self-custodial Bitcoin and Lightning payments simple and censorship-resistant, while bringing hands-on technical chops from contributions to rust-lightning. He grew Blockchain at Berkeley from a small student club into a university-recognized organization that produced courses, meetups, and alumni who now work across top crypto projects, and co-wrote the world’s first undergraduate cryptocurrency course. Max has advised governments and institutions on blockchain pilots and taught blockchain programs at Berkeley Law by age 22, blending policy fluency with deep protocol knowledge. After stepping back in 2019 to study global repression and information access, he intentionally refocused on privacy, satellite/VPN resilience, and payment rails for the unbanked—an uncommon policy-informed lens in product-led founders.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Double Major - Computer Science and Economics, Bachelor's Degree Double Major - Computer Science and Economics at University of California, BerkeleyClaudia Taylor Johnson High School
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Github Skills (7)
bitcoin10
rust10
bitcoins10
lightning-network10
network-programming9
architecture8
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
lightningdevkit/rust-lightning
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
A highly modular Bitcoin Lightning library written in Rust. It's rust-lightning, not Rusty's Lightning!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:26 reviews, 5 commits, 12 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Max primarily contributed to the `rust-lightning` library by addressing build issues, implementing new functionalities and improving the codebase. They fixed a build problem in the `lightning-background-processor`, allowing custom smart pointers within the `lightning-net-tokio` module and adding a method to the `ValidatedBlockHeader`. Furthermore, they modified the code to remove the need for `Arc<PeerManager>` in the `lightning-net-tokio` module and derived `Debug` for `ConfirmationTarget`, which shows their involvement in refining the core functionality and improving the efficiency of the library.
rustyrustlightninglightning-networkbitcoin
MaxFangX/maxfangx.github.io
Jan 2015 - Sep 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 48 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 10 months
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