Summary
Max Seo is an Application Engineer with 11 years of experience building maintainable, testable web applications, currently at Google in California. He has a strong Java backend and cloud background from FINRA, where he helped develop Herd—an open-source metadata catalog and AWS orchestration tool—and led work on an IPO filing system. His skill set spans Java EE, Spring, JPA/Hibernate, Angular front-ends, and automated testing practices, with early experience in Struts2, Hibernate and XML integrations. Max favors convention-driven design but isn’t afraid to challenge norms when they don’t add value, and treats testability and cross-developer maintainability as required features. He maintains a public GitHub portfolio (seoj.github.io) and enjoys designing solutions that balance engineering rigor with pragmatic delivery. Colleagues describe him as thoughtful about architecture and effective at translating complex requirements into auditable, production-ready systems.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Maryland, College Park
Spanish, Korean