Max Henstell
Software Engineer at Freelance
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMax Henstell is a versatile software engineer and maker based in Oakland with 15 years of cross-disciplinary experience spanning backend systems, infrastructure, embedded hardware, firmware, and mechanical design. He currently works on deployment tooling, CANbus performance, and fleet configuration for autonomous vehicles at Zoox while continuing freelance consulting to help teams untangle technical debt and automate deployments. His background includes leading hardware engineering at a startup modernizing embedded development, building a mobile 3D mapping vehicle and cloud ETL pipelines for city-scale sensor data, and taking consumer hardware products from concept to production. Comfortable switching between low-level firmware and high-scale cloud APIs, he’s known for marrying practical engineering with creative problem-solving—often surfaceable in physical prototypes and production fleet tooling rather than open-source headlines.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS Television and Digital Film Production Jazz, BS Television and Digital Film Production Jazz at State University of New York at Fredonia
English
Github Skills (34)
pyserial9
apollo8
browser-extension7
openframeworks7
gate7
webextension7
led-controller6
chrome6
cli6
nodejs6
firefox6
serial-port6
angular5
safari5
javascript5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mhenstell/mhenstell.github.io
Mar 2016 - Nov 2022
Contributions:24 pushes in 6 years 9 months
mhenstell/under_construction
Jan 2018 - Oct 2018
Repository for the 2018 BM Project 'Under Construction'
Contributions:2 PRs, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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