Max Gasner
CTO at Meanwhile
Oakland, California, United States
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Top SchoolMax Gasner is a product-minded CTO and entrepreneur with 11 years of experience building data-heavy fintech products and developer-facing infrastructure. Currently leading technical strategy at Meanwhile to reinvent life insurance for the digital era, he blends hands-on engineering with team-building and go-to-market experience from founding roles at Bee and Prior Knowledge. At Elementl he was an early engineer shaping core abstractions, integrations, deployments, and the commercial architecture for a venture-backed open-source data platform, and he has contributed to Dagster’s UX and config tooling. His background spans payments, neobanking, compliance, and insured-deposit systems, plus customer-focused research and physical product channels—evidence of a pragmatic, end-to-end builder. Based in Oakland, he pairs liberal-arts curiosity (University of Chicago, Deep Springs) with a relentless focus on execution and collaborative culture.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Liberal Arts, Liberal Arts at Deep Springs CollegeBA South Asian Languages and Civilizations, BA South Asian Languages and Civilizations at University of ChicagoStuyvesant High School
French, Sanskrit, pali, German
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Github Skills (12)
dagster10
python10
code-completion9
yaml8
front-end-development8
type-annotations6
docker6
falcon-framework6
querystring6
roxygen6
r6
package6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
dagster-io/dagster
Nov 2018 - Apr 2022
An orchestration platform for the development, production, and observation of data assets.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:16 releases, 18 reviews, 1064 commits in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Max's commits primarily focused on improving the functionality of the code completion feature for dicts within the YAML configuration editor, and fixing the configurable whitespace display in the config editor. These changes involved front-end development and back-end code changes. Additionally, they are involved in a code quality effort, incorporating changes to fix line lengths.
operationpythonobservationschedulermetadata
onefinancial/pypi
Mar 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:28 PRs, 35 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 11 months
pythonpypicachingdockerdevpi
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