Max Minkoff
Senior Engineering Manager at Optro
Cheltenham Township, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolMax Minkoff is a Senior Engineering Manager and multidisciplinary software leader with 11+ years building product-focused web platforms and marketplaces from startup inception to scale. An Industrial Engineer and Wharton MBA, he blends business strategy with hands-on engineering—including Ember.js, Ruby on Rails, Postgres, AWS, and test-driven practices—to translate customer problems into elegant, maintainable systems. He’s held executive technical roles (CTO/Chief Product Officer) across multiple early-stage ventures and now leads engineering at Optro, preferring durable product value over short-term wins. Known for pairing UX sensitivity with rigorous engineering discipline, he routinely integrates third-party ecosystems (Stripe, Zapier, MailChimp) to amplify product reach. A former creator of a widely noticed consumer app and founder of several startups, he brings entrepreneurial curiosity and cross-functional leadership to established teams.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Industrial Engineering - Human Factors/Virtual Reality, Master of Science - MS, Industrial Engineering - Human Factors/Virtual Reality at University of WashingtonBachelor of Science - BS, Information Systems, Bachelor of Science - BS, Information Systems at Drexel UniversityMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Entrepreneurial Marketing and Operations, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Entrepreneurial Marketing and Operations at The Wharton School
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Github Skills (103)
filestack10
filepicker10
factories9
modifiers9
emberjs9
insert9
ember-addon9
adapter9
firebase8
testing8
google-analytics8
scroll-to-top8
firestore8
fetch8
ember-data8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mminkoff/ember-filestack
May 2017 - Mar 2022
Support for Filestack service within EmberJS
Contributions:9 releases, 1 review, 52 commits in 4 years 10 months
ember-addonemberjs-addonember-filestackemberjsember
schoolsOut/schoolsOut
Mar 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:7 PRs, 26 pushes, 2 branches in 8 months
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