Max Hawkins
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarMax Hawkins is a software engineer with 16 years of experience based in San Francisco, currently building Messaging Transport at Apple powering FaceTime, SharePlay, AirDrop and related real‑time services. He blends deep audio/video and networking expertise—highlighted by consulting work and open-source contributions to pion/webrtc—with backend and DevOps chops (notable contributions to a forced aligner and database DALs). As founder of Dialup he shipped a social voice product that reached thousands and earned coverage in The New Yorker and the New York Times, demonstrating product instincts beyond engineering. Earlier work on Google’s Emmy‑winning Data Arts Team and a CS & Art degree from Carnegie Mellon reflect a rare mix of systems rigor and creative design. He’s an active, pragmatic open‑source collaborator who prefers direct contact via his site rather than LinkedIn.
17 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
878reputation
19kreached
6answers
7questions
Github Skills (46)
c-language10
postgresql10
python10
mysql10
gui-programming10
user-interface10
userinterface10
sdp10
ruby10
kaldi10
go10
sqldb10
rtcp10
golang10
database-management10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
strob/gentle
Oct 2015 - Feb 2016
gentle forced aligner
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:143 commits, 59 PRs, 9 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Max contributed to the `gentle` project by implementing command-line argument parsing using `argparse` to improve the main python entrypoint. They also made significant changes to the C++ code of the `standard_kaldi` executable, fixing usage issues and allowing model path specification. Further, the user improved the debugging of the C++ component and made efforts to improve the general architecture of the code.
alignergentle
pion/webrtc
Sep 2018 - Apr 2019
Pure Go implementation of the WebRTC API
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:46 commits, 30 PRs, 63 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Max primarily focused on implementing and testing the RTCP (RTP Control Protocol) package within the `pion/webrtc` repository. They added and tested functionalities like RTCP header parsing, packet unmarshaling, and the BYE packet type. The user's work involved refactoring of fields, and creating new methods to support different RTCP packet types, indicating a deep understanding of the underlying WebRTC protocol.
webrtcpure-gogovideowebrtc-api
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