MAXIMILLIAN EINSTEIN

My name is Maximillian Einstein1 and I am an Angeleno living in Amsterdam.2 Profesionally, I am a software engineer with a passion for connecting dots.3 However, I arrived at that occupation by nontraditional means.4 In terms of graduate education, I hold a JD/MBA dual degree5 and am a licensed member of the State Bar of California.6 In terms of undergraduate education, I hold two degrees in relatively disparate fields.7 I also fluently speak a quirky German dialect8 and have the fluffiest pup in the world.9

Notes

  1. But I go by Max.
  2. The quality of life in Los Angeles is sub par for someone who does not drive and does not care much for The Industry.
  3. My exact title at the moment is Staff Software Engineer at a wonderful company called Ophelia, where I am part of a very small engineering team focused on making evidence-based treatments for opioid use disorder (OUD) accessible to everyone. I was previously a Senior Member of Technical Staff at Oracle, where I served as frontend lead on the the Autonomous Data Science Cloud Service team.
  4. At first, I wanted to become a lampmaker. I gave that a good faith effort, but ultimately ran out of puns to name my creations with. Nevertheless, said lamps are still on display at: TurnMeOnLamps.com. My next endeavor was to become a filmmaker — a truly novel line of work for any native Angeleno. I focused in on an array of edgy topics, but ultimately I believe my cinematic style proved too esoteric to ever gain mass appeal. I'll let you judge my short films for yourself. I eventually found a more lasting groove through the world of generative art and data visualization designers. That influence turned into a wellspring of creative expression that inspired me to pursue software engineering. I haven't looked back once. Here you'll find a link to some of my most prized personal artifacts: ODAD and DataLooksDope.com.
  5. I have a J.D. from Southwestern Law School, where I graduated in the top 10% of my class - and I have an M.B.A from the Drucker School of Management that was earned as part of a dual degree program with my law school. My primary passion during this time of my life was not Criminal Law or Mergers and Aquisitions, but rather the Homelessness Prevention Law Project, where I served as President. I believe that as a society we are far too desensitized to homelessness, which is why I also created a series of filmed portraits on the matter: VoicesOfLosAngeles.com.
  6. I still pay the annual fees to have this license number, making it my most expensive subscription for something I don't really use.
  7. I attended the University of California, Santa Barbara, where I earned degrees in Black studies and German studies. I wanted to find a link between these two disciplines for my senior thesis, but struggled doing so. In the end, I wrote about an issue that is still very near and dear to me: education reform. Evidently, my paper is an implicit endorsement of neo-liberalism, which is an easy way to make heads explode.
  8. Broadly speaking, my dialect is known as Swiss-German — aka Schweizerdeutsch, aka Schwyzerdütsch, aka Schwiizertüütsch, aka Schwizertitsch — but my particular subdialect is Bernese German — aka Berndeutsch, aka Bärndütsch, aka ... you get the point.
  9. His name is Mo and we found him in the woods of rural Missouri. He's the best boy.