Michael Maximilien
Founder And CEO at ClawMax.ai
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Maximilien is a founder and CEO with 15+ years building cloud-native and AI orchestration platforms who combines deep research credentials (CS PhD) with hands-on engineering across large open-source ecosystems. Based in Palo Alto, he has held senior technical leadership roles at IBM (CTO, Distinguished Engineer) and chaired the OpenJS Foundation, guiding developer-facing infrastructure and governance. A prolific contributor to Cloud Foundry, BOSH, and Knative tooling, he focuses on robust backend, CLI, and automation improvements that make large-scale distributed systems and developer workflows more reliable. He now leads ClawMax.ai, an AI agent orchestration platform for managing hundreds of agents with visual workflows and execution tracking. Outside of engineering he’s an award-winning Bay Area street photographer and endurance athlete — 20+ marathons and multiple Ironman races — a combination that reflects a discipline for long-term projects and attention to craft. Quietly, he also collects complex mechanical objects and enjoys pairing technical problem solving with aesthetic practice.
15 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Computer Science, Ph.D., Computer Science at North Carolina State UniversityB.S., Computer Engineering, B.S., Computer Engineering at Florida International UniversityBaccalauréat — High School Diploma, Science and Mathematics, Baccalauréat — High School Diploma, Science and Mathematics at Saint Louis de Gonzague
French, English, creoles and pidgins, french-based
Github Skills (38)
bosh10
kubernetes10
cloud-foundry10
apidoc10
testing10
rspec10
ruby10
cf-cli10
cl10
sinatra10
go10
api10
kubernetes-pods10
sh10
cli10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
cloudfoundry/cli
May 2014 - Apr 2018
The official command line client for Cloud Foundry
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:46 commits, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 4 years
Contributions summary:Michael contributed significantly to the `cloudfoundry/cli` repository by implementing and refining core functionalities of the Cloud Foundry command-line interface. The commits demonstrate a focus on improving service instance status reporting, and implementing variable substitution for manifest files. The user addressed both functional improvements and enhancements to the user experience by fixing the formatting of tables and messages. The changes involved modifications to the Go codebase, suggesting proficiency in back-end development within the Cloud Foundry ecosystem.
foundrycf-clicloud-foundrycloud-foundry-clicli
knative/client
Apr 2019 - Jul 2021
Knative developer experience, docs, reference Knative CLI implementation
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:220 reviews, 44 commits, 63 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Michael's contributions centered around enhancing the Knative client CLI. They added a version command, built scripts for automated binary generation, and implemented support for configuring resource requests and limits (CPU/memory) when creating and updating services. The user also contributed tests to validate new functionality. Furthermore, they added Zsh completion.
serverlessknativekubernetesdeveloper-experiencecli
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