$60 / month
4 calls per month (30min/call)
Unlimited Q&A via chat
Expect responses in 24 hours or less
Hands-on support
No spots left, but you can save the mentor to your wishlist to get notified about their open spots!
What's included in the trial?
Every trial is a little different—here’s what Max says about their trial:
We'll meet for a quick call (usually under 30 minutes) where we:
- Break the ice and introduce ourselves
- Discuss your goals and how I can support you
- Coordinate logistics like time zones, meeting frequency, and communication methods
Deep understanding of systems is my professional differentiator. I've spent the last 2 years on a small team (5 engineers at its largest) building, from scratch, a complicated SAAS offering featuring a distributed file system, workflow execution engine, and a hosted compute environment (similar to Google Colab).
I am hoping to get back into education and help people find unconventional perspectives on software development and some insight into the (relatively) uncommon Startup career path. My previous education work was all during my bachelor's from University of California, Berkeley, where I was responsible for education projects in a Machine Learning club.
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Talk with me about:
- System software: Compilers, Operating Systems, Databases, File Systems, Distributed Systems
- Web development: TypeScript, React
- Containerization technologies: Docker, Kubernetes
- Functional programming: principles, Haskell, Nix
- Complicated applications: Programming Languages, Text Editors, Browsers, Collaborative Software
I have perspectives on design, implementation, and use of these technologies in the industry.
If any of these are interesting to you, it's probably a good match!
P.S. I don't think it's very important, but professionally I work primarily with Python, TypeScript, React, and PostgreSQL, so I am very up-to-date on best practices for these. I know a lot of other tech and languages so please do not self-exclude based on this list.
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Offering:
- Code reviews
- Technical insight
- Project ideas & planning
- Early career advice
5 out of 5 stars
Fantastic mentor! Max especially signs with tricky technical problems. No problem was too big for Max to work out in a fraction of the time it would've taken me.
5 out of 5 stars
Max is a great mentor! His code reviews were thorough, insightful, and incredibly helpful. His guidance significantly enhanced both my code's quality and my grasp of best practices.
Dealing with forward references to types from another module.
How to parse a CSV into form inputs // Static typing, JSON-formatted data, and in-memory backtracking recursive descent parser // …
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