Max Tilford
Senior Software Engineer at Instinct Science
California, United States
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SeniorMax Tilford is a seasoned full-stack engineer with 17 years of experience building and leading product-focused teams across startups and established companies. Currently a Senior Software Engineer at Instinct Science, he has a track record of owning end-to-end delivery—from feature discovery and UX mockups to databases, ETL, CI/CD, and production operations. He’s led engineering at youth-sports and education-focused products, translating real customer needs into practical, maintainable systems and mentoring junior developers along the way. Comfortable across Ruby on Rails, Java, Angular, PHP, and modern JS stacks, he repeatedly steps into both technical leadership and hands-on coding roles. Max’s strength is digging past surface requirements to find the true problem and designing solutions that balance product, engineering, and operational concerns. Based in California, he combines curiosity-driven learning with a pragmatic emphasis on shipping reliable software.
17 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (20)
materialize6
asset-pipeline6
heroku6
sprockets5
ruby-on-rails5
pipeline5
rails5
tagging5
rubygems4
wolkenkit4
ruby4
material-design3
javascript3
cqrs3
nodejs3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
maxtilford/Miscellaneous
May 2009 - Feb 2010
Contributions:10 commits in 9 months
maxtilford/Conway-js
Dec 2009 - Dec 2009
Contributions:10 commits in 6 days
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