Max Leiter
Member Of Technical Staff at Anthropic
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMax Leiter is a Member of Technical Staff with 11 years of engineering experience building fast, accessible web experiences and developer tooling. Based in California, he has shipped full-stack features at Vercel—contributing to flagship projects like Next.js and the Vercel CLI—and now works at Anthropic. Comfortable across JavaScript, C++, and C, he focuses on performance, accessibility, and open-source ecosystems, having improved UI/UX, web stream handling, and server-side integrations. His open-source work includes front-end and accessibility improvements to thelounge and end-to-end contributions to vercel/ai that span client hooks, server components, and streaming AI integrations. He pairs production-grade automation and packaging experience (e.g., Procursus build tooling) with a knack for pragmatic developer ergonomics and error handling.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science & Business Administration, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science & Business Administration at University of Southern CaliforniaWoodside Priory School
Github Skills (63)
apim10
javascript10
vercel10
crossbuild10
api-design10
testing10
typescript10
build-system10
nextjs10
user-interface10
makefile10
debian-packaging10
uid10
automation10
component-kit10
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
MaxLeiter/Drift
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
Drift is a self-hostable Gist and paste service. Built with Next.js 13 and React Server Components.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:40 reviews, 372 commits, 82 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Max primarily focused on front-end development, implementing new features and fixing bugs within the React/Next.js codebase of the project. Their work involved significant changes to UI components and navigation, suggesting a focus on improving the user experience. Furthermore, the user also made adjustments to the backend and settings, indicating a good understanding of the project's architecture. The changes reveal the user's ability to implement core functionality across both client and server side.
nextjsreact-server-componentsgistpastebinpastebin-service
thelounge/thelounge
Jun 2018 - Jan 2023
💬 Modern, responsive, cross-platform, self-hosted web IRC client
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:13 releases, 320 reviews, 275 commits in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Max primarily contributed to the front-end of the web IRC client. Their work focused on improving the user interface and accessibility by implementing features such as moving loading text, adding HTML language attributes, and adjusting the chat layout. The user also addressed bug fixes and improved the overall user experience. They implemented features for muting/unmuting channels and queries.
ircjavascriptircv3chatthelounge
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