About

My name is Max Abrams and I am a Principal Software Development Engineer with Amazon. I love the challenge of speed and efficiency while working at scale.

I received my Bachelors of Science in Computer Science and Engineering from Santa Clara University with extra courses in mathematics and electrical engineering. I have also studied databases, big data, and extreme computing distributed systems at The University of Edinburgh.

I provided consulting work on major projects, including but not limited to: Spree, Runner, and ShellCases.

Before Amazon and my consulting work, I worked at Autodesk on Inventor new their new cloud offering. I was a presenter for Autodesk's Las Vegas conference, as well as an Autodesk Featured Expert.

I attended the Stanford Educational Program for Gifted where I studied Artificial Intelligence. I developed projects emphasizing machine learning and computer vision. My final projects included AI driven Pong, handwriting recognition software, and organic search for path of least resistance via distributed compute.

My previous studies focused on modeling the limitations of the human brain with a neural network (findings available upon request) where I won the Intel Northwest Science Exposition's best in Category.

I continued to share my passion for technology with others as I tought Robotics Programing and AP Computer Science at Oregon Episcopal school (OES).

In my early days, I was working on developing bots to play video games. Starting with Dacta controlled Legos that would physically manipulate the keyboard, I eventually moved to screen-scraping color bots. As my programming knowledge advanced, my later work focused on injection/reflection based algorithms.

I first became interested in computer science while experimenting with the Lego Dacta programing in the 3rd grade. With the OES Lego Logo team, we were able to exhibit our custom models and applied robotics at the Oregon Zoo (the school still presents during winter!)

In my spare time, I love traveling to new places, eating fresh foods, and home projects like home automation with Alexa. I also enjoy cars and supporting my brother's passion to drift.