hey, im max!
im a student, software engineer, entrepreneur, and powerlifter
Sep 2025 - Present
Co-founder to a Productivity Platform
Bootstrapped a SaaS company and scaling it to 10k MRR
May 2025 - Aug 2025
Software Engineer Intern at Machyna
Built a serverless file management system using AWS Lambda, AppSync, and S3
Aug 2024 - Dec 2024
Deep Learning Researcher
Research on mechanistic interpretability of LLM, mitigating sycophantic behaviors
Aug 2024 - Dec 2024
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant
Facilitated lectures for 150+ students in Electrical Engineering Programming
Oct 2023 - Oct 2024
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Developed an LLM-based autograder, improving scoring accuracy and efficiency.
June 2023 - Aug 2023
Moved from Taiwan to California
ClockIn
An app that helps you stay accountable by recording timelapses of you working, so you can “clock in” with social proof
Yagmi
Create AI Mentors that lets you chat with an “advisor” tailored to your goals, giving you guidance and next steps as you grow
Obscuri
A desktop application that silently awaits for your screenshots and querys an LLM without a trace
Bcon
A C based CLI tool that can convert data between binary value, hexadecimal, and decimal value.