Max Hodak
Software Engineer at sciencecorp
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMax Hodak is a software engineer with 16 years of experience who blends biomedical engineering training from Duke with hands-on work building tools for scientists. He began in neurophysiology labs developing brain–machine interface experiments and later founded MyFit, a college-student matching startup that exited to Naviance after a Silicon Valley detour. At Transcriptic he focuses on developer-facing products that accelerate laboratory automation and scientific workflows. His open-source work includes an autoencoder for continuous molecular representations, reflecting an interest in applied ML for chemistry and biology. Based in San Francisco and self-styled a "reality engineer," he bridges experimental science, ML modeling, and practical product engineering.
16 years of coding experience
BSE, Biomedical Engineering, BSE, Biomedical Engineering at Duke University
Github Skills (14)
keras10
machine-learning10
deep-learning10
python10
autoencoder10
modeling9
tensorflow9
trainings9
data-preprocessing9
visualization8
data-visualization8
data-visualisation8
data-visualizations8
visualizations8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
maxhodak/keras-molecules
Oct 2016 - Jan 2017
Autoencoder network for learning a continuous representation of molecular structures.
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
ML EngineerContributions:24 commits, 16 PRs, 40 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Max focused on developing and improving a molecular autoencoder network for learning a continuous representation of molecular structures. Their contributions involved visualizing the model, refining the projection of the latent space, and implementing decoder functionality. They also worked on the preprocessing scripts and updated the model architecture, adding activations and refactoring components.
autoencoder
sciencecorp/synapse-api
Oct 2024 - Apr 2026
Synapse protocol buffer definitions
Contributions:23 reviews, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 year 6 months
protocol-buffers
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