About

Max Kaplan is the founder & CEO of Orangefin Ventures. Before founding Orangefin Ventures, Max spent 6 years working at Kraken where he was the first engineers ever hired and led the DevOps and Data Engineering departments as senior director. Outside of the tech world, Max can be found watching sports or training for his next triathlon.

Publications

• https://blog.kraken.com/crypto-education/performance-at-kraken
• https://medium.com/hackernoon/thinking-algorithmic-in-assembly-775e768c03e2
• https://hackernoon.com/what-you-dont-know-about-bitcoin-9aafedbeb096

Open Source Contributions

• Terraform Provider: MySQL
• Solana Program Library
• Firedancer
• Agave
• Bitcoin Core
• lightningnetwork/lnd
• debezium/debezium