Max Rothman
Freelance Software Engineer at Klezmer Archive Project
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolMax Rothman is a versatile freelance software engineer with 11 years of experience designing and shipping production systems across startups and academia from Somerville, MA. He moves easily between product and infrastructure work—building web apps, Chrome extensions, AI prototypes, and scaling systems to handle 100x traffic increases—while advising on compliance and market fit for regulated domains like clinical trials. As co‑founder and principal architect of a funded digital humanities knowledge graph, he bridged logic-heavy ontology work with pragmatic engineering under tight budgets and saved domain experts hundreds of hours through semi-automated data cleaning. Known for quickly becoming the SME on complex systems, he advocates for robust operational practices, blameless postmortems, and developer enablement. Trained in physics, he pairs analytical rigor with a knack for turning fuzzy problem statements into reliable, user-focused products.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Physics Mechanical systems dynamics electronics thermodynamics, Physics Mechanical systems dynamics electronics thermodynamics at Beloit College
Github Skills (200)
libgit210
slideshow10
visual-studio10
encoding10
linter10
reveal-js10
hashicorp10
openedx10
nested10
terragrunt10
amazon10
css10
hcl10
user-interface10
terraform-provider10
Programming languages (28)
Github contributions (5)
maxrothman/test
Feb 2015 - Mar 2020
Contributions:6 pushes, 11 branches, 48 issues in 5 years 1 month
maxrothman/config
Aug 2015 - Feb 2025
A repository for various pieces of workstation setup: dotfiles, configs, extensions, etc.
Contributions:2 PRs, 201 pushes, 8 branches in 9 years 7 months
workstationdotfiles-setupconfigsbashextensions
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