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MAX MAYER

Learner, builder, optimizer.

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I'm a computer science and mathematics student at Northeastern University, and more than anything I like building things. These days I'm most interested in agentic systems, systems engineering, and applied machine learning. So far that's meant a billing system that handles millions of trades a day, risk and investment tooling at a hedge fund, racing agents trained with reinforcement learning, and products ranging from an AI finance chatbot to an iOS app with paying users. Now I want to take what I know about AI and apply it to problems with even larger impact.

Away from the keyboard, I'm usually outside. I ski (I'm National Ski Patrol certified), scuba dive (PADI certified), and hike whenever I get the chance. You'll also find me DJing, driving manual, or at a poker table.

Jun – Jul 2026

Quantitative Hedge Fund (Name Available Upon Request)

Summer Analyst, Investment

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.

PythonSQLData PipelinesAPIs
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.

PythonAWS LambdaAWS S3gRPCLLMs
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.

PythonDagsterData Pipelines
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.

PythonLLMsRAGAPIsProduct
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Research Apr – May 2025

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 (2019–2025) using cointegration, MST clustering, rolling z-score entry/exit, and transaction-cost simulations.

PythonstatsmodelsNumPyPandas
Research Spring 2026

Competitive MARL Racing

Principles of AI · 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.

JavaSwingMVCMinimax
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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++ Swift LaTeX

AI & Machine Learning

Enterprise LLMs LLM APIs Agentic Workflows RAG PyTorch Reinforcement Learning PPO Multi-Agent RL Whisper Prompt Engineering

Python Ecosystem

Pandas NumPy SciPy statsmodels Matplotlib Pydantic Dagster

Infrastructure & Tools

AWS S3 AWS Lambda Google Cloud Firebase Docker gRPC RESTful APIs Git GitHub SwiftUI Xcode Jupyter

Finance & Analytics

Risk Modeling Quantitative Research Statistical Arbitrage Backtesting Market Making Bloomberg Terminal

Product & Entrepreneurship

Product Development Shopify E-commerce Web Design Premiere Pro Illustrator Video Editing Agile

Northeastern University

Khoury College of Computer Sciences | Boston, MA

Expected December 2027

B.S. Computer Science & Mathematics, AI Concentration

Dean's List

Currently Taking

Advanced Probability & Risk Models Software Engineering for Consultants History of Architecture Advanced Writing

Computer Science Coursework

Principles of AI · Algorithms · Object-Oriented Design · Theory of Computation · Logic & Computation · Discrete Structures · Systems Programming · Foundations of Cybersecurity · Intro to Data Science · Program Design

Math Coursework

Probability & Statistics · Number Theory · Group Theory · Linear Algebra · Differential Equations & Linear Algebra · Mathematical Reasoning · Calculus I–IV

Activities

Vice-President @ Delta Kappa Epsilon · Quantitative Researcher @ Systematic Alpha · Treasurer @ Systematic Alpha · FinHacks Hackathon · Game Theory Club · Electric Racing Club

Dwight-Englewood High School

Englewood, New Jersey

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

Let's connect.

Currently available for Spring 2027 and Summer 2027 opportunities.