Max Stoiber

Max Stoiber is a prominent figure in the tech industry, currently serving as the Co-founder and CEO of Stellate, a company that provides GraphQL CDN services with features like GraphQL Edge Caching, Metrics, and Rate Limiting.1

Career Highlights

Entrepreneurial Ventures: Max co-founded Stellate in February 2021 and has been leading the company since then.1 Prior to Stellate, he co-founded Spectrum.chat, a community platform that was acquired by GitHub in November 2018.1

Professional Experience:

• Senior Staff Software Engineer at Gatsby (2020-2021)
• Software Engineer at GitHub (2018-2020)
• Open Source Developer at Thinkmill (2016-2017)

Technical Expertise

Max has a strong background in frontend development and open-source contributions. He is known for creating styled-components, a popular CSS-in-JS solution for React applications, and for maintaining KeystoneJS, a Node.js CMS.1

Education and Skills

Max attended Sir-Karl-Popperschule, a school for highly-gifted children, where he obtained his High School Diploma.1 He is proficient in multiple languages, including English (native or bilingual proficiency), French (limited working proficiency), and Russian (elementary proficiency).1

Achievements

Max has received several accolades throughout his career, including:

• Forbes 30 under 30 (Austria) in 2018
• Multiple web design awards, such as Site of the Month by CSS Winner and Site of the Day by Awwwards1

Recent Activities

Max is active in the GraphQL community and frequently shares insights about GraphQL, e-commerce, and web development on his LinkedIn profile.345 He also writes articles on topics like user interface design and occasionally speaks on podcasts about transitioning from engineering to leadership roles.26