Maximilian Hale

maxhale@live.co.uk · www.maxhale.dev · +44 7874 655059 · United Kingdom

Fullstack engineer who approaches system design with the precision of a physicist and the creativity of a builder. Experienced across the full stack, I focus on reliability, scalability, and crafting solutions that bridge technology and real-world outcomes.

// Experience

Software Engineer (Contractor)Jan 2025 – Present

CapEnergy

Fullstack engineering contractor.

–Fullstack software engineering across the stack

Fullstack Engineer & Co-FounderNov 2024 – Jan 2025

Meritt

A sales hiring platform using video, automation, and AI to help startups and agencies hire faster.

–Architected the entire SaaS platform from 0 to 20,000+ users with 99.9% uptime
–Established observability stack (Better Stack, Sentry, PostHog); sub-5-min median incident response
–Engineered large-scale semantic vector search (pgVector, custom embeddings, LLM re-ranking); sub-second retrieval across 1M+ profiles — 70% faster sourcing
–Built from-scratch auth: password + OAuth (Google, LinkedIn), bcrypt + RBAC; +40% signup conversion
–All wireframes, user flows, and prototypes in Figma — directly informed frontend development
–Clean Hexagonal architecture; CI/CD with GitHub Actions — deployment time 20 min → <5 min

Mathematics & Physics TutorOct 2021 – Feb 2025

MyTutor

UK's leading online platform for one-to-one academic tuition.

–600+ hours of personalised A-Level tuition to 25+ students
–100% of students achieved grade A or higher

// Education

MPhys in Physics (Integrated Master's)Graduated 2025

University of St Andrews

–Focus: Quantum Optics, General Relativity, Computational Physics
–Master's thesis: “Beam Shaping for Information Transfer” — vortex and vector laser beams for high-efficiency optical communication

// Technical Stack

LanguagesTypeScript, JavaScript (Node.js), Python, SQL, Java, Fortran

BackendFastAPI, Express.js, Spring Boot, Kafka, REST APIs, GraphQL

FrontendNext.js, React, Angular, Tailwind

DataPostgreSQL, Redis, pgVector, Prisma ORM, Drizzle ORM

CloudAWS (S3, ECS, EC2, RDS), Vercel, GCP, Docker, GitHub Actions

ObservabilityJest, Playwright, Sentry, BetterStack, PostHog

// Projects & Interests

–Ultramarathon Running — two 50-mile ultramarathons completed
–Applied Physics — physics simulations in Fortran and C, exploring concepts from my degree