Max Kaye
Philosophy at Blockchain Australia
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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SeniorMax Kaye is a philosophy-minded technology leader with 14 years of experience architecting, building, and managing software and blockchain projects from research to production. As CTO and cofounder of SecureVote and Director of Blockchain at Bee Projects, he blends hands-on backend development (notably enhancements to Bitcoin tooling like pycoin) with strategic product and team leadership. He focuses on thinking methods and novel team processes to align groups around shared goals, rejecting conventional Scrum/Agile constraints in favor of corrective urgency and accountability. An active researcher and cofounder in the Australian blockchain community, his work spans voting systems, market protocols, and crypto infrastructure since 2013. He practices and develops Critical Fallibilism, integrating ideas across Popper, Deutsch, Rand, Mises, and Goldratt to guide decision-making and organizational design. Based in Sydney, he prefers philosophical and systems-focused roles over typical software shop positions.
14 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (7)
unit-testing10
bitcoin10
alt10
bitcoins10
python10
scripting10
bip328
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
richardkiss/pycoin
Apr 2015 - Oct 2016
Python-based Bitcoin and alt-coin utility library.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 9 comments in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Max focused on enhancing the `pycoin` library, specifically by implementing a new `nulldata` transaction type to support OP_RETURN operations. They added the necessary classes and methods, including `ScriptNulldata`, and integrated them with the existing codebase. The user's contributions involved writing unit tests to ensure functionality and correctness, demonstrating expertise in Bitcoin-related scripting and Python development. Their work also included correctly handling edge cases, such as different data lengths, and ensuring the generated scripts are valid.
base58pythonaltbip32segwit
XertroV/tm-editor-plus-plus
May 2023 - Apr 2025
Contributions:1 PR, 210 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 11 months
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