Summary
Maximillian Einstein is a Staff Software Engineer in Santa Monica with 10 years of experience building and scaling frontend systems for startups and large enterprises. He has led or architected complex web and native apps—from a courier marketplace and durable API clients at Brenger to a frontend microservice for data science tools at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure—consistently improving type safety, maintainability, and developer velocity. Comfortable both as a hands-on engineer and a technical leader, he has driven greenfield projects that were acquired, migrated APIs to GraphQL/Relay, and owned component libraries used across products. He also teaches and communicates complex ideas: he designed and taught a law-school course on Developing Web-Based Startups and has produced documentary and data-visualization work, reflecting a rare blend of technical, product, and storytelling strengths. Notably, his background includes an MBA and a JD (Top 10%), which inform a practical, systems-thinking approach to product and organizational trade-offs.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) at Claremont Graduate University - Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management
Juris Doctor (J.D.), Top 10%, Juris Doctor (J.D.), Top 10% at Southwestern Law School
Bachelor's Degree, Black Studies & German, Bachelor's Degree, Black Studies & German at University of California, Santa Barbara
English, swiss-german, German, Dutch