MK

Max Kaplan

Founding Engineer at Aptos Labs | Ex-Meta

San Francisco, California

Invests in

Locations:

  • Min Investment:

    $5,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $50,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $15,000.00

Work Experience

2022

  • Software Engineer (Founding Team)

    2022

2021 - 2022

  • Software Engineer

    2021 - 2022

    Cryptocurrency, distributed systems, Diem, blockchain, infrastructure Foundational blockchain infrastructure powering experiences across Meta AWS, Git, Kubernetes, Rust, Hack, Python, Snowflake, MySQL, Postgres

2018 - 2020

  • Tech Lead Manager, Software Engineer

    2018 - 2020

    • Saved millions on annual cloud spend. • Led multiple teams. Responsible for year-long department initiatives/OKRs, mentoring, and career growth. • Architected/created one of the largest scale services at Cruise: versioning, delivery, and CDN system (backend+CLI) for map assets, with daily volume in the petabytes, peaking at terabytes per second, tens of thousands RPS. • Multiple patents. Docker, Git, Go, Node.js, Python, PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS, GCP, Terraform, Vault, Kubernetes

2017 - 2018

  • Senior Software Engineer, Team Lead

    2017 - 2018

    • Identifying and mitigating performance/scalability bottlenecks in existing code during a period of exponential scaling/growth - unblocked multiple services. • Migrated two large monolithic apps into micro-services, improving scalability. • Pushed testing culture, with measurable impacts across teams. • Built write-once-run-anywhere server/worker platform for running ML models at scale (still in use). Docker, Git, Rails, Node, Python, React, Redis, Tensorflow, PostgreSQL, AWS, Webpack

  • Senior Software Engineer

    2016 - 2017

  • Director of Technology

    2015 - 2016

2009 - 2015

  • Founder, CEO

    2009 - 2015

  • VP Business Development

    2011 - 2012

2011 - 2011

  • Analyst (Contractor)

    2011 - 2011

    Duties and Responsibilities: • Analyze international cybercrime markets to identify, prevent, and mitigate electronic crime. • Create thorough profiles for persons of interest to befriend, identify, and locate them. Accomplishments: • Implemented sample sharing initiative, reducing costs while opening access to previously unobtainable malware. • Designed multiple novel honeypots to aid in intelligence gathering.

2010 - 2010

  • Team Lead (NCIKU)

    2010 - 2010

    NCIKU is a division of NHN Corp, an internet service multinational based in South Korea. Duties and Responsibilities: • Conceptualize and prototype ideas for increasing user retention and page views. • Lead a cross-departmental team for design and development of new language learning products. • Provide strategic competitor analysis of the global search engine market. Accomplishments: • Developed marketing software for a major Chinese social network, converting over 300,000 target users. • Successfully raised user retention 10% and daily page views per user 15%.