I'm Max Hao.

I'm a Systems Engineer currently studying Mathematics and Computer Science at Rutgers University—New Brunswick. I believe there is an inherent elegance in designing things to scale, and I focus on building the maintainable infrastructure required to support resilient applications and services.

I am particularly interested in designing distributed microservice architectures that integrate with edge environments, while managing operational trade-offs — specifically, how to manage distributed state, network latency, and service communication effectively at scale.

Beyond traditional infrastructure, I have a special interest in the intersection of machine learning and edge computing, with a focus on the constraints of machine learning operations at the edge and the engineering challenges of bringing intelligent computation to resource-constrained platforms, particularly model quantization and hybrid edge-to-cloud data loops.

As a proponent of open-source, building systems collaboratively and openly is one of my core values. I document my experiments and projects on my blog, Depld, where I write about the practical realities of building systems at scale.