Max Stoiber
Member Of Technical Staff at OpenAI
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMax Stoiber is a software leader and entrepreneur with 12 years of experience building developer-facing products and distributed systems from the front-end to the edge. He co-created widely used open-source projects like styled-components and react-boilerplate (100k+ stars) that power millions of developers and over 1% of public websites, and has deep hands-on experience in React, TypeScript, and developer tooling. As co-founder and CEO of Stellate (the GraphQL CDN) he scaled a global team, raised $30M, and led an acquisition by Shopify, then served as Shopify’s Director of Engineering before joining OpenAI to help evolve ChatGPT into an apps platform. An active early-stage investor in 20+ startups, Max combines product instincts with technical execution and a strong track record of low-churn product launches. He’s also the kind of engineer who refactors macOS keybindings and TypeScript configs by night—practical, detail-oriented, and focused on developer experience.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Sir-Karl-PopperschuleCertified Austrian Ski Instructor Sporttraining/Trainer, Certified Austrian Ski Instructor Sporttraining/Trainer at NÖSLVNeulandschule FavoritenWiedner Gymnasium
English, German
Stackoverflow
11,337reputation
777kreached
36answers
5questions
css
top-5%
redux
top-5%
Github Skills (66)
react-boilerplate10
wordpress-themes10
testing10
css-in-js10
styled-components10
system10
ui-theme10
component-library10
javascript10
cil10
uid10
front-end-development10
wordpress-graphql10
html10
typescripts10
Programming languages (30)
Github contributions (5)
mxstbr/karabiner
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
My Karabiner Elements configuration
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 60 commits, 12 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Max focused on configuring and generating a custom Karabiner-Elements configuration for macOS. They developed a TypeScript-based configuration generator, defining key mappings, creating sublayers for applications, and implementing system-level controls. The user's work involved refactoring the code, introducing new features like window management, and expanding the configuration with additional application shortcuts and system-level controls.
karabiner
carteb/carte-blanche
Feb 2016 - Nov 2019
An isolated development space with integrated fuzz testing for your components. See them individually, explore them in different states and quickly and confidently develop them.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:425 commits, 153 PRs, 275 pushes in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Max primarily contributed to the development of the front-end components, focusing on the implementation and styling of UI elements. They significantly refactored the architecture, and updated the UI and styling for better usability of the style guide. The contributions are focused on developing and styling UI components, with a strong emphasis on React.
fuzz-testing
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