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MAX MAYER

Building at the intersection of code and capital.

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I'm a computer science and mathematics student at Northeastern University with a deep focus on quantitative finance and systems engineering. I've built billing systems that process millions of daily trades, engineered risk pipelines at hedge funds, and co-founded products from AI chatbots to iOS apps. I think in systems, build with precision, and gravitate toward problems where math meets markets.

Outside of work, I'm drawn to the outdoors — skiing, scuba diving, hiking — environments where nature reveals elegant solutions to complex problems. I'm a PADI-certified diver, National Ski Patrol certified, a top 3% ProjectEuler solver, and I've appeared on the Jane Street puzzle leaderboard. You'll also find me DJing, driving manual, or solving brainteasers at a poker table.

Sep — Dec 2025

Boston Options Exchange

Software Engineer, Risk & Compliance

Architected an in-house Python/SQL billing system processing 3M+ daily trades (~5% of national volume), saving $1M+ annually by replacing an outsourced vendor.

Reduced monthly billing from 3+ days of manual processing to fully automated execution. Reverse-engineered complex undocumented fee logic across market maker, broker-dealer, and customer accounts.

PythonSQLBilling SystemsOptions
Jun — Aug 2025

Quantitative Hedge Fund (Name Available Upon Request)

Summer Analyst, Risk

Engineered a gRPC interface using AWS Lambda/S3 for automated hedge trade staging, cutting decision-to-trade time by over 90%.

Built a Python pipeline unifying diverse risk datasets into concise daily reports headlined by enterprise LLM models.

AWS LambdagRPCPythonLLMs
May — Aug 2024

Quantitative Hedge Fund (Name Available Upon Request)

Summer Analyst, Risk

Developed automated systems leveraging proprietary quantitative pricing models to generate and visualize real-time risk metrics for flagged portfolios.

Created infrastructure using data orchestration platforms to automate publishing of statistical analyses to centralized dashboards firm-wide.

PythonDagsterRisk Analytics
May — Aug 2023

Finify

Chief AI Officer & Chief Product Officer

Built and launched alpha/beta of an AI finance chatbot in 3 months, integrating live market data and SEC-approved APIs. Led two cross-functional dev teams across the U.S. and internationally.

Drove $20M valuation by leading breakthrough AI demo at Finify Investors' Conference — presenting technical architecture and novel LLM applications when generative AI was still emerging.

PythonLLMsProductLeadership
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Research Apr 2025 — Present

Market Neutral Pairs Trading

Generated 105% total return (12% CAGR, Sharpe 1.6) via out-of-sample Python walk-forward backtest on S&P 500 (2018-2025) using cointegration, MST clustering, rolling z-score entry/exit, and transaction-cost simulations.

PythonstatsmodelsNumPyQuant Research
Research Spring 2025

Competitive MARL Racing

Artificial Intelligence — Received an A

Multi-agent reinforcement learning system that trains diverse F1-style racing agents via self-play and reward shaping. Built PPO from scratch in PyTorch with a checkpoint curriculum, producing four distinct archetypes (Balanced, Speedster, Blocker, Drifter) that converge to equal Elo ratings in round-robin evaluation.

PythonPyTorchPPOMulti-Agent RLSelf-Play
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Engineering Feb — Apr 2025

Pawns Board Game

Object-Oriented Design

A full-stack two-player strategy board game built in Java with MVC architecture, Swing GUI, and four pluggable AI strategies (FillFirst, MaxRowScore, ControlBoard, MiniMax). Features configurable decks, variant influence systems, and a dual-controller setup supporting human-vs-AI and AI-vs-AI play.

JavaSwingMVCAI StrategiesOOD
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Engineering Apr — May 2024

Automated LLM Call Scoring

Built a Python system leveraging GPT and Whisper APIs to transcribe and analyze call center interactions. Accelerated classification by 60x while reducing costs by 40x with human-comparable accuracy.

PythonGPT APIWhisperNLP
Entrepreneurship Jun 2020 — Jun 2022

Gaming Stockpile

Founded and scaled an eCommerce store from $40 to 10,000%+ ROI within the first year. Drove 50,000 site sessions and 2.5M social media views through content marketing and brand strategy.

eCommerceMarketingWeb Dev

Languages

Python SQL Java C C++ LaTeX

Python Ecosystem

Pandas NumPy SciPy statsmodels Matplotlib Pydantic Dagster

Infrastructure

AWS S3 AWS Lambda Google Cloud Firebase GitHub gRPC

Finance & Analytics

Bloomberg Terminal Risk Modeling Quantitative Research Market Making Enterprise LLMs

Northeastern University

Khoury College of Computer Sciences | Boston, MA

Expected May 2027

B.S. Computer Science & Mathematics

GPA: 3.78/4.0 Dean's List

Data Structures & Algorithms, Probability & Statistics, Number Theory, Linear Algebra, Discrete Math, CS Theory

Leadership

Vice-President @ Delta Kappa Epsilon Quantitative Researcher @ Systematic Alpha Treasurer @ Systematic Alpha FinHacks Hackathon

Dwight-Englewood School

Englewood, New Jersey

Graduated 2023
Computer Science Award 780/800 Math SAT Dean's List

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Currently available for Summer '26 and Fall '26 opportunities.