Summary
Max Gale is a Staff Engineer in New York with 12 years of experience building products across iOS, Android, web, and backend systems, currently shaping observability at Datadog. He has a strong track record as a tech lead and founder, having launched core features like Snap Map and Public Profiles at Snap and co-founded ohyay, a bespoke video-conferencing platform used by Stanford, MIT, and major brands. Max blends product intuition with systems thinking—from large-scale NLP and ML work at Amazon to payment APIs and realtime experiences at startups—making him comfortable from research prototypes to production services. He holds dual BS degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics from Binghamton University and brings an uncommon mix of founder grit and platform-scale engineering discipline.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Binghamton University
English