Max Kolysh
Visiting Partner at Dover
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolMax Kolysh is a founder-operator and investor with 13 years of experience building and scaling marketplace and operations software from San Francisco. He founded Dover, a recruiting alternative used by dozens of high-growth companies and backed by Founders Fund and Tiger, and previously built Zinc into a logistics backbone powering hundreds of e-commerce sellers. Now a Visiting Partner at Y Combinator and board member at Dover and Zinc, he mixes product-led growth instincts with hands-on engineering roots from MIT and early roles at Palantir and Oliver Wyman. An active seed investor, he has backed category-defining startups across infrastructure and consumer tools, reflecting a talent for spotting teams that turn operational complexity into repeatable software. Notably, his career repeatedly converges on automating manual workflows—recruiting, catalog/fulfillment, and marketplace plumbing—turning costly human processes into scalable products.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Solon High SchoolBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Spanish, Russian
Stackoverflow
2,910reputation
252kreached
43answers
61questions
Github Skills (111)
mongodb10
npm10
javascript9
reactive-programming9
realtime9
blaze9
herokuapp9
react9
build-system9
rpc9
nodejs9
inferno8
phantomjs8
database8
api8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
maxko87/whatsinthebox
Nov 2013 - Jul 2017
Contributions:14 commits, 1 push in 3 years 9 months
maxko87/maxkolysh.com
Sep 2018 - Mar 2025
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 6 months
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