About me

I'm Max. I graduated from Bucknell University in 2025 with degrees in Computer Science and Economics. I'm currently working as a Business Analyst at CURE Auto Insurance while figuring out what comes next. This page is the honest version, not the one I'd put on a job application.

The short version

I grew up outside Philadelphia, walked into a wrestling room at 14 knowing absolutely nothing about the sport, and spent the next four years trying to become a Pennsylvania state champion. I didn't get there. I got disqualified on a controversial call at the state tournament my senior year. But that journey shaped everything about how I approach hard problems. You show up, you do the work when nobody's watching, and sometimes things don't go your way. You learn to keep going anyway.

That mentality carried me through two years of Division 1 wrestling at Bucknell, a double major, and some genuinely difficult stretches where I was juggling more than I probably should have been. I eventually stepped back from competing and found other ways to support the team, which taught me something different: sometimes the best thing you can do is show up for the people around you.

What I've built

I've been building software since college. A few highlights:

• An AI medical-text summarizer at Johnson & Johnson. Built with LangChain and fine-tuned OpenAI models to adapt clinical abstracts to different literacy levels.
• Real-time capacity dashboards at Newport News Shipbuilding. Data pipelines in Java that tracked production throughput across 10+ shops building aircraft carriers.
• A sensor data pipeline as a capstone product owner at Bucknell. Raspberry Pi ingestion, MariaDB storage, automated KPI extraction that cut experiment processing from 45 minutes to 5.

These days I'm focused on learning everything I can and building with AI. I'm drawn to tools and systems that make life better, and I'm using AI as my primary lens for exploring what's possible.

What I'm doing now

Honestly? Figuring it out. I graduated, I'm reading a lot, running more than I used to (traded wrestling mats for miles), and building this site as a way to think in public.

I'm interested in building useful tools, learning as much as I can, and writing about what I'm figuring out. I don't have it all figured out, and I think that's fine. The people I admire most are the ones who stayed curious and kept shipping.

This site

This is my corner of the internet. I designed it and chose the stack (Next.js, MDX, and Tailwind) because I wanted something I fully control. I didn't write the code myself. I orchestrated AI to build it while I made every design and content decision. It's a work in progress, like most things worth doing.

I also want this site to be something I look back on in 10, 15, 20 years. A snapshot of how I was thinking at a given moment. What I cared about, what I was building, what I got wrong. I want to read these posts someday and smile, or laugh at myself, or just remember who I was. If nothing else, it's a way to track how my thinking evolves over time.

If you want to reach out, you can find me on the links page.