Maxim Khailo
Co-Founder And Chief Exponent Officer at ThetaEdge
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolMaxim Khailo is a seasoned software founder and engineer with 16 years of experience building large-scale, data-intensive systems and cryptoeconomic products from Seattle. He co-founded Merit Labs and Merit Capital to push friendly digital currency and next-generation quant fintech, and now leads ThetaEdge as Chief Exponent Officer, focused on making exponential concepts accessible. His background spans petabyte-scale computer vision and LiDAR processing at HERE to core infrastructure, analytics, and ML systems at FoxCommerce, demonstrating deep expertise in distributed processing and production software. A pragmatic free-software advocate, he combines hands-on coding with product instincts and a taste for clever technical innovation—often described wryly as the “chief technical trouble maker.” Unusual for an engineering founder, he blends formal study in computer science, math, and philosophy with real-world trading-system and high-performance mapping experience, giving him both analytical rigor and practical grit.
16 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science Mathematics and Philosophy, B.S. Computer Science Mathematics and Philosophy at North Central College
English, some russian, some japanese
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Github Skills (91)
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
meritlabs/merit
Aug 2017 - Nov 2018
Merit aims to be the world's most adopted digital currency.
Contributions:34 releases, 989 commits, 165 PRs in 1 year 3 months
currencydigital-currencyaimsmerit
meritlabs/libmeritminer
May 2018 - Sep 2018
Library that can mine merit.
Contributions:104 commits, 16 PRs, 39 pushes in 4 months
minemerit
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