Max
Gertzen

About

Hi, I'm Max. I build things - software mostly, but also music, sculpture, and the occasional performance that probably shouldn't exist. My day work is engineering: I design the foundations teams build on, and lately I've been deep in AI, making apps with LLMs, vision, and agents that actually do something useful. I work in React, TypeScript, and Node, run my own contracting company (Greatwhale), and move between codebases, clients, and countries without needing anyone to hand me a map. I'm curious by default, trilingual by a good accident of life (English, Russian, and Hebrew), and I care as much about how a thing feels to use as whether it runs. If you're making something ambitious, I'd love to hear about it.