Max Gerber
Principal Software Engineer at Twilio
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMax Gerber is a Principal Software Engineer based in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building identity and access systems for large-scale platforms. He has led IAM work at MuleSoft—implementing standards like OAuth2, OpenID Connect, SAML, and TOTP—and continued that focus after joining Stytch and Twilio, driving product engineering and platform-grade authentication features. Max blends full‑stack expertise (React, Node.js, Postgres, Kubernetes) with hands-on security and authorization design, including work on ABAC policy engines and provider-grade OAuth/OpenID implementations. He excels at taking spec-heavy, security-sensitive projects from design to production and mentoring teams through complex integrations. A UC Berkeley EECS graduate, he brings startup agility and enterprise rigor, often operating at the intersection of developer experience and hardened security infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
English
Github Skills (88)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
maxwellgerber/maxwellgerber.github.io
Oct 2015 - Jun 2026
Contributions:54 pushes, 1 branch, 1 tag in 10 years 10 months
maxwellgerber/launchdarkly-ratelimit-demo
Jul 2020 - May 2021
Ratelimit demo for Launchdarkly's Trajectory Conf
Contributions:4 PRs, 4 pushes, 4 branches in 10 months
launchdarkly
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