msMaxim Stark
ORLANDO / FL Contact
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Solo builder, end to end

I build systems
that think ahead.

Custom software, AI systems, computer vision, and playable experiments. Designed, built, and run by one person, on hardware I operate.

Live in production on infrastructure I run myself

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01 — Systems

Things that run in production.

Not case studies. Things I built and still run: a reasoning graph, live computer vision, and a world that remembers what you leave in it. Open any of them right now.

02 — Playable now

Real games. In your browser.

No install, no account. Every asset in each one is generated in code. Source is open where the repo is mine to share.

03 — Built for others

Client & pro bono.

Sites and rebuilds for real businesses and a nonprofit — from a decades-old general contractor to a center helping people rebuild after domestic violence.

04 — Capabilities

Deep where it counts.

The builds above get the attention. The reason to hire me is what's underneath.

Most of my work is the part users never see. I build backend systems in Python and Node: REST and real-time APIs, the data pipelines that move data between them, and PostgreSQL schemas designed with least-privilege roles instead of a single god-user. Then I run it in production on infrastructure I operate and harden myself — Linux servers, containerized and reverse-proxied, with the firewalling, intrusion detection, and secrets management real systems actually need. No managed platform doing it for me.

AI is where that backend meets the current frontier, and it's where most of my recent work lives. I design agents and Model Context Protocol tooling, wire up retrieval and LLM orchestration, and build computer-vision pipelines: systems that run on a schedule and publish real output, not one-off demos. The kind of thing that has to work on the hundredth run, not just the first.

The visible craft is real too: the browser games, the WebGL, the design system this site is built on. But it sits on top of the engineering, not in place of it. I spent years as a designer before I went deep on the backend, which means I can architect the database and make the result look like it cost more than it did. Most engineers only do one of those.

05 — Contact

Have something that deserves to be built well?

Tell me what you're working on. You'll hear back from the person who would build it, and if it's a fit, you'll have a plan in your inbox within 48 hours.

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