Max Stuart
IT Director, Lead Software Engineer at Tackle Hunger: Home of the Souper Bowl of Caring
Oakland, California, United States
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Top SchoolMax Stuart is an IT Director and lead software engineer with eight years of experience building user-centric, full‑stack systems and scalable cloud infrastructure. He architects and operates high‑availability microservices, CI/CD pipelines, and multi‑cloud deployments while prioritizing accessibility and performance—most notably leading the Tackle Hunger Map that processes donations to over 24,000 U.S. food charities and exposes a public API used by nonprofits and government. Comfortable from TypeScript/Node/React front ends to Postgres-backed APIs, he combines product-focused UX design with DevOps, security, and agile delivery practices. He has led distributed engineering teams across the Americas and Europe, standardizing documentation and processes to improve onboarding and retention. Motivated by social impact and “7th generation” thinking, he applies technical craft to create adaptive systems that increase self‑knowledge and help underserved communities. An unusual mix of circus instructor, ESL teacher, and cognitive‑science research experience gives him a pragmatic, human-centered approach to problem solving.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Psychology Neuroscience Minor, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Psychology Neuroscience Minor at University of California, DavisAgile MBA Project Management, Agile MBA Project Management at The Job HackersSoftware Engineer Computer Software Engineering, Software Engineer Computer Software Engineering at Holberton School
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Github Skills (76)
bin-packing10
grids10
charts9
extend9
backend9
react9
snippet9
gatsbyjs9
react-components8
material-ui8
cloudflare-workers8
mongodb8
google-cloud-speech8
wrangle8
nodejs8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ShelterTechSF/VACS-MVP
Feb 2020 - Mar 2020
Voice Automated City Services (VACS), making the askdarcel database accessible by telephone! (Akeem Seymens’ & Max Stuart’s 2020 Portfolio Project)
Contributions:109 commits, 27 PRs, 97 pushes in 1 month
stuartaccessibletelephoneportfolio-projectvoice
COVID-basic-needs/scraping-uploads
Mar 2020 - Oct 2022
Web Scraping project to help NokidHungry.org
Contributions:13 commits, 1 PR, 10 pushes in 2 years 6 months
scraperscrapingpythonweb-scraping
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