Elite Full-Stack Architect & Product Owner

Max Millien

Greater Boston Area 617-***-**** ************@*****.***

SUMMARY

Elite full-stack architect and product owner with 10+ years of experience turning complex ideas into scalable, production-ready systems. Specialized in advanced RAG architectures, agentic workflows, and high-performance frontend engineering. Deep expertise across backend infrastructure (TypeScript, NestJS, Postgres, Neo4j) and UX/UI design, building systems that are technically robust and intuitively usable. Architect at the intersection of engineering depth and product strategy: designing for scale, driving engagement, and shipping with speed.

TECHNICAL ARSENAL

● Frontend & UX: React 19, Next.js, TypeScript/ESNext, Redux Toolkit, Tailwind CSS, shadcn/ui, D3.js, Angular, Ember, UX/UI Product Design.

● AI & Databases: LangChain/LangGraph, Hugging Face, Vertex AI, Ollama, Agentic Workflows, Context Engineering, Hybrid RAG, Neo4j, PGVector, Weaviate, Postgres, MongoDB, SQL Server.

● Backend: Node.js (NestJS, Express), C# (.NET Core, ASP.NET), Java (Spring Boot), Ruby on Rails, Redis

(Bull), QStash, RabbitMQ, Google Cloud Pub/Sub, Google DLP, Stripe API.

● Cloud & DevOps: GCP, AWS, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins), Playwright, Jest, Vite.

EXPERIENCE

Puretome – Principal Engineer & Product Owner 2024 – Present

• Spearheaded the product development and UX design to launch an AI Biographer platform empowering users to craft and publish memoirs, achieving a 17% beta signups conversion rate.

• Architected and deployed an LLM-agnostic "Stateless Specialist Pattern" engine leveraging LangGraph, Neo4j, and PGVector, achieving a 40% improvement in narrative coherence over standard RAG implementations.

• Engineered a high-performance monorepo using Yarn Berry Workspaces, integrating a React 19 frontend with a modular Node.js/NestJS microservices backend.

• Built a custom Next.js "Command Center" utilizing shadcn/ui: a dedicated internal growth engine designed to monitor telemetry, enforce licensing models, and orchestrate complex AI credit economies.

• Designed a "Hybrid Memory System" combining vector similarity search with graph-based causality mapping to execute multi-step AI workflows without hallucination.

• Orchestrated background job queues and asynchronous service communication using Redis (Bull), Google Cloud Pub/Sub, and QStash for reliable, heavy-workload AI processing.

• Implemented rigorous DevOps and testing standards, building a zero-downtime CI/CD pipeline via GitHub Actions, GCP, and Terraform, backed by comprehensive Playwright E2E and Jest unit test coverage (85%).

Notable Previous Engineering Leadership & Full-Stack Roles 2007 – 2019 SBE Vision – Engineering Lead

• Architected hybrid microservice infrastructure across GKE and on-prem Kubernetes clusters, integrating GitLab CI/Nexus pipelines to accelerate deployment throughput by over 50%.

• Led a team of 11 developers(across 3 time zones), directed agile processes that improved delivery velocity by 35% and reduced cross-team communication delays.

• Designed and developed a modular Angular UI toolkit leveraging Material Design/Tachyons/D3.js, standardizing UX and cutting design-to-development time. Service Layer consisted of 10+ Spring Boot and Koa.js microservices along with Postgres for persistence.

• Wrote an automation framework using Node/MongoDB that used Testcafe and Maven Surefire to provide nightly results on e2e testing of microservices. Service logging was performed using the ELK stack with Filebeat.

• Configured private registries for Docker, npm, Helm, and Maven, streamlining DX and cutting build times by 30%.

• Implemented an out-of-stack identity provider/management service for authentication(OAuth2, JWT). Verizon – Senior Software Engineer

• Built web apps and RESTful web services for creating private cloud organizations and managing their associated accounts, virtual machines, storage, firewalls, billing, and usage. (Dropwizard, Swagger, RabbitMQ, Angular, Express, Nginx, Postgres, CentOS).

• Championed best practices for Node.js, Angular, and Docker adoption, standardizing front-end workflows and increasing developer output by 25%.

• Designed cross-platform Vagrant/Docker dev clusters that reduced environment setup time from 2 days to under 2 hours, accelerating team onboarding and CI pipeline readiness.

• Built an automated OpenShift STI deployment pipeline for containerized microservices, enabling zero-downtime releases and reducing manual deployment errors by 80%. G4S – Senior Software Engineer

• Developed a configurable survey and incident reporting tool (Knockout.js, RavenDB, ASP.NET MVC) deployed across 17K+ security systems, improving data collection efficiency and UX consistency. Built SQL-to-RavenDB migration utilities and Excel importers supporting 100K+ system records, enabling seamless legacy-to-modern data transition.

• Enhanced Card Access Control app with 10+ new features and performance optimizations, reducing load times by 35% and improving system uptime.

• Developed recruitment workflow module (Angular, C#, RabbitMQ), implementing CQRS architecture, improving request processing speed, and reducing code complexity by 20%. EDUCATION

Boston University 2003 – 2007

Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering

https://github.com/maxathy

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