Summary
Max Irwin is a veteran technology leader and founder with 25 years of hands-on experience building search and AI products, and 14 years of professional experience documented in corporate roles. As President of Bonsai and founder of MAX.IO, he designs and delivers scalable model-serving inference systems and managed search platforms that power enterprise-scale Elasticsearch and OpenSearch deployments. He previously led Wolters Kluwer’s global Search Center of Excellence and advised dozens of companies at OpenSource Connections, training hundreds of developers in search, relevance, embeddings, and NLP. A pragmatic strategist who still writes and codes, he combines deep relevance tuning and MLOps expertise with public speaking and an upcoming contributing chapter in Manning’s AI Powered Search. Based in Rochester, NY, he’s as comfortable architecting petabyte-scale search as he is shipping developer training and custom AI solutions.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. (Bachelor of Science) Computer Science and Mathematics, B.S. (Bachelor of Science) Computer Science and Mathematics at University at Albany