meinstein

My name is Maximillian Einstein1 and I am an Angeleno who used to live in Amsterdam.2 Professionally, I am a software engineer with a passion for connecting dots.3 I arrived at this occupation through nontraditional means.4 I hold a JD/MBA dual degree5 and am a licensed member of the State Bar of California.6 I also hold two undergraduate degrees in disparate fields.7 I also fluently speak a quirky German dialect8 and have the fluffiest pup in the world.9

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  1. But I go by Max.
  2. Los Angeles felt subpar for someone who doesn't drive or care much for The Industry. Yet here I am, inevitably back in my hometown after six years abroad.
  3. I'm currently a Staff Software Engineer at Ophelia, where I'm part of a small engineering team focused on making evidence-based treatments for opioid use disorder accessible to everyone. Previously, I was a Senior Member of Technical Staff at Oracle, where I served as frontend lead on the Autonomous Data Science Cloud Service team.
  4. At first, I wanted to become a lampmaker. I gave it a good faith effort, but ultimately ran out of puns to name my creations (turns out there are only so many variations on "enlightening"). 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 on an array of edgy topics, but my cinematic style proved too esoteric to gain mass appeal. I'll let you judge my short films for yourself. I eventually found a more lasting groove in the world of generative art and data visualization. That influence became a wellspring of creative expression that inspired me to pursue software engineering. I haven't looked back. 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 an M.B.A. from the Drucker School of Management earned as part of a dual degree program. My primary passion during this time was not Criminal Law or Mergers and Acquisitions, but the Homelessness Prevention Law Project, where I served as President. As a society, we are far too desensitized to homelessness, which is why I created a series of filmed portraits on the matter: VoicesOfLosAngeles.com.
  6. I still pay the annual fees to maintain this license number, making it my most expensive subscription for something I've never used. Not even once.
  7. I attended the University of California, Santa Barbara, where I earned degrees in Black studies and German studies. I tried to find a link between these disciplines for my senior thesis, but came up short. In the end, I wrote about education reform — an issue still near and dear to me. Evidently, my paper is an implicit endorsement of neo-liberalism, 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 (objectively speaking).