Max Steele
Software Developer at Waabi
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolMax Steele is a software developer with 12 years of experience building data-intensive systems and ML lifecycle infrastructure across startups and large enterprises from Portland, Oregon. He has led teams and technical initiatives—from founding Wayfair’s Demand Forecasting engineering practice to architecting a full ML deployment stack at Shelf Engine that scaled models from 2 to 15+ in months. Comfortable in fast-moving startups and high-performance trading environments alike, Max combines backend, cloud (Azure/Kubernetes), and data-platform expertise with a pragmatic focus on observability, DevOps, and reducing mean-time-to-detection for data issues. He excels at turning ambiguous business problems into production-ready systems while fostering cross-functional collaboration and democratizing on-call responsibilities. A mathematician by training, he brings a quantitative mindset and a knack for building tooling that amplifies team productivity rather than just individual heroics.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Queen Elizabeth's School, BarnetUniversity College SchoolMaster of Engineering (MEng) Mathematics and Computer Science, Master of Engineering (MEng) Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Bristol
French
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Github Skills (26)
feature-selection10
parameter-tuning10
genetic10
feature-engineering10
aiml10
genetic-programming10
automated-machine-learning10
random-forest10
gradient-boosting9
python9
scikit-learn9
automl9
hyperparameter-tuning9
automation8
hyperparameter-optimization8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
supersparks/sifteo
Jul 2013 - Aug 2013
Contributions:28 commits in 6 days
screwed99/game2_alphabeta2
Feb 2023 - Apr 2023
Contributions:31 reviews, 2 PRs, 3 branches in 1 month
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