Maxwell Salzberg
CEO Co-Founder at BackerKit
Berkeley, California, United States
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Top SchoolMaxwell Salzberg is a seasoned founder and software leader with 16 years of experience building tools that help creators bring ideas to market. As CEO and co-founder of BackerKit, he has scaled a premier backer-management platform trusted by thousands of crowdfunding projects while remaining hands-on with product and engineering direction. Earlier he co-founded Diaspora, an early privacy-focused social network that became one of Kickstarter’s first six-figure successes, and contributed backend fixes and authentication/database work to its open-source codebase. Based in Berkeley with a BS in Computer Science from NYU, he combines entrepreneurial grit with practical engineering chops—equally comfortable shaping company strategy as diving into backend refactors and integrations.
16 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science Computer Science at New York University
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Github Skills (12)
activerecord10
back-end-development10
emailjs9
ruby9
e-mail9
email-server9
mailer9
api8
user-authentication8
authentication8
apidoc8
openssl7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
diaspora/diaspora
Jun 2010 - Jun 2014
A privacy-aware, distributed, open source social network.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2345 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Maxwell primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Diaspora social network, making several merge requests. These commits involved modifying the database configuration, and addressing the authentication system with the users' email or username. Additionally, the user addressed email preference changes, and refactored services as well as a variety of code changes throughout the repository.
social-networkprivacyrailsp2pprivacy-aware
maxwell/rack-piwik
Jan 2012 - Apr 2015
Contributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 3 years 4 months
piwikrack-middlewarerackrubyrequest
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