Summary
Max Lapides is a senior software engineer and manager with 13 years of experience building web and mobile products, currently at Brex after leading mobile and applications engineering at startups like Tonal and Aescape. He blends a designer’s sensitivity with pragmatic engineering, championing inclusive team cultures, predictable agile processes, and continuous learning. At Tonal he introduced Flutter for a production mobile app and shipped biweekly releases while expanding into watch and embedded Android apps, demonstrating a knack for choosing pragmatic cross-platform solutions. Max scales teams and systems through proactive planning and reusable design frameworks, having previously created a company-wide UI component library and led major front-end migrations to React and Redux. Based in Oakland, he’s as comfortable shipping UX details as he is mentoring engineers and running hands-on training sessions that raise team capability.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science at Vassar College
Central Bucks HS-West