Max Huckstepp
Founding Engineer at Linecook
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolMax 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 BloomTechBachelor of Science - BS, Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Engineering at Syracuse University College of Engineering and Computer Science
English
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Github Skills (16)
rights10
react7
nodejs6
mongodb6
open-weather-api6
data-science5
git5
redux2
backend2
heroku2
sendgrid-api2
cron2
tailwind1
visualizations1
postgresql1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mhuckstepp/backendwaterplants
Apr 2021 - Aug 2021
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
backendherokujwtopen-weather-apipostgresql
mhuckstepp/MaxHxkcd
May 2021 - Aug 2021
A better way to view your favorite xkcd comics! Monolith built with React, Redux, Node, Express, Postgres, Tailwind, react-chart-js2, and Cron. Deployed to Heroku with a scheduler to populate the app with new comics as they are released.
Contributions:1 review, 16 PRs, 121 pushes in 3 months
cronherokupostgresqlreactredux
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