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Max
Hale_

Fullstack engineer. MPhys Physics.
I build reliable systems and ship fast.

// now

Software Engineer @ CapEnergy

Fullstack contractor, Jan 2025 – present

MPhys Physics @ University of St Andrews

Graduated 2025 — thesis on beam shaping for optical communication

// work

CapEnergyJan 2025 – now

Fullstack software engineering contractor. Building across the stack. Working on frontend+design to IoT data pipelines

MerittNov 2024 – Jan 2025

Co-founded and built a SaaS hiring platform end-to-end. Semantic vector search over 1M+ profiles, auth, observability, CI/CD. From zero.

// stack

TypeScript is my daily driver. I've shipped production code in JS, Python, C#, and F# — and spent enough time in Fortran and C to appreciate memory management.

TypeScript · Python · SQLNext.js · React · TailwindPostgreSQL · Redis · pgVectorAWS · Docker · GitHub ActionsFastAPI · Express · KafkaJest · Playwright · Sentry

// beyond

vim enthusiast - my dotfiles...
reading - fantasy books
ultramarathon runner - two 50-mile races completed
physics simulations - Fortran & C, for fun
music - guitar + drumming