Max Kaplan
Founder & CEO at Stealth
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolMax Kaplan is a founder and principal software engineer with 15 years building high-scale distributed systems and startups from Palo Alto. He led foundational infrastructure work at Meta on cryptocurrency and blockchain, was a founding engineer at Aptos, and architected petabyte-scale delivery and CDN systems as a tech lead at Cruise that saved millions in cloud spend. Max combines hands-on engineering across Go, Rust, Python and Kubernetes with product-level leadership—founding two companies and driving OKRs, mentoring, and cross-team initiatives. He has a track record of migrating monoliths to microservices, shipping ML-serving platforms, and holding multiple patents tied to system-scale problems. Now building “a better AI future” as Founder & CEO of a stealth AI company, he blends deep systems expertise with entrepreneurial risk-taking. Colleagues describe him as relentlessly curious about new technologies, companies, and people—often surfacing unconventional solutions from his background in cyber intelligence and early-stage ventures.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Self Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree, Self Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree at UdacityUniversity of Pittsburgh
English, Russian, Spanish
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Github Skills (36)
lucee10
activejdbc10
agile10
rapid-prototyping10
javalite10
java9
solidworks9
activeweb9
rapid-development9
conventions9
rad9
web-development8
gwt8
orientdb8
usability7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
perforator-io/io.perforator.client-java
Dec 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
javalite/activeweb
Apr 2011 - Aug 2011
ActiveWeb moved, see below
Contributions:4 commits in 3 months
ruby-on-railsactivewebrailsrubymhealth
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