Max Huckstepp is a founding engineer and seasoned software developer with eight years of experience building product-ready systems, most recently shipping iOS features at Strava before co-founding Linecook. Based in San Francisco, he pairs hands-on mobile engineering with a strong background in industrial and manufacturing software, having bridged technical and commercial roles at Sight Machine, Symbio Robotics, and OSIsoft. His career blends product development, sales engineering, and business development, giving him a rare fluency in translating customer needs into scalable technical solutions. Max studied engineering at Syracuse and retrained in software development at BloomTech, which informs his pragmatic, full-stack approach to problem solving. He maintains an active GitHub and is reachable directly for collaboration or technical leadership opportunities. A detail that often surprises peers: he moved from environmental and industrial engineering roles into core product engineering, bringing domain expertise that accelerates early-stage product-market fit.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science and Software Development, Computer Science and Software Development at BloomTech
Bachelor of Science - BS, Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Engineering at Syracuse University College of Engineering and Computer Science
Backend for WaterMyPlants App. Built with Node, Express, Postgres, Knex, bcrpyt, JWT, Heroku Scheduler, SendGrid API, OpenWeather API
Contributions:3 PRs, 60 pushes, 4 branches in 3 months
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