Max Hirata
Software Engineer II at Discuss.io
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMax Hirata is a Software Engineer II with nine years of full-stack experience building and scaling customer-facing web platforms, currently based in Seattle. He specializes in React.js-driven frontends and PHP/MySQL or .NET backends, with hands-on ownership of feature development, testing, and infrastructure monitoring to reduce bottlenecks and cost anomalies. Max has shipped enterprise and consumer-facing projects—from client customizations at Discuss.io to scalable full-stack apps and a MERN meetup planner—while bringing QA discipline and SQL code review experience from earlier roles. Comfortable working independently or in teams, he emphasizes reusable components, observability, and pragmatic best practices. Actively learning and experimenting, he leverages personal projects as a sandbox for new stacks and integrations to stay ahead of evolving web development trends.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Seattle University
English, Japanese
Github Skills (10)
yelp-fusion-api7
fusion6
mongoose6
yelp6
mern5
expressjs5
api4
mongodb4
react3
nodejs3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
MaxHirata/Meetupify
May 2019 - Jul 2019
Hangout Planner App Built on the MERN Stack with Yelp Fusion API
Contributions:50 commits, 6 PRs, 27 pushes in 2 months
yelp-fusionexpressplanner-appmongoosereactjs
MaxHirata/Reactivities
Oct 2019 - Jan 2020
Building an app along side a tutorial with ASP.Net Core and React.js
Contributions:6 PRs, 39 pushes, 12 branches in 3 months
reactaspasp-netnet-corereact-js
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