Summary
Max Greenblatt is a Principal Engineer and enterprise architect based in Portland with 11 years building resilient, cost-efficient backend systems across startups and scale-ups. He’s a full-stack technologist fluent in Python, Go, Java, C++, PHP and JavaScript who has led teams to production—from authoring Kindle features at Amazon to cutting a $5M/year cloud bill and running services that handle billions of transactions daily. At Uphold he architected low-latency trading platforms for institutional and retail markets, and today he shapes enterprise architecture at Toast with a practical, hands-on leadership style. Max combines deep systems experience (distributed services, trading systems, cloud cost optimization) with a track record of growing and mentoring engineering teams, making him equally comfortable in code reviews or board-level technical strategy. An engineer who began in storage and embedded systems and moved through research and product roles, he brings uncommon breadth across infrastructure, real-time systems, and product-facing platforms.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.S.E Computer Engineering, B.S.E Computer Engineering at University of Michigan
Masters Computer Science, Masters Computer Science at University of California at Los Angeles, Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science