MAX JACKSON / BOSTON, MA

Max
Jackson

I'm passionate about building things and working with people.

I turn practical needs into working software, connect the systems behind it, and keep improving it in daily use. My work spans an artist-built auction house, public agent tools, and shared knowledge systems.

See my work ↓ Read my résumé ↗

Open to forward deployed engineering roles

A luminous faceted center surrounded by twisting reflective red forms against black, a 3D render by Max Jackson. — FROM MY DAILY 3D PRACTICE BLENDER / 2026

UNDERSTAND THE WORKFLOW BUILD & INTEGRATE DEPLOY & ITERATE

Engineering experience at The Boston Globe and Charged Particles. Independent work across product, integrations, and operations.

Experience & résumé ↗

01 / SELECTED WORK

Problems I’ve worked through.

001 / PRODUCT & INTEGRATION

Cryptoart.social

An auction house built around the artist’s workflow.

I wanted Farcaster notifications built into my auction house, and control over curation. I built Cryptoart.social to bring those needs into one experience.

I adapted Manifold’s marketplace contracts, deployed a subgraph, and built the website around them. Artists receive notifications when bids arrive; bidders hear when they’ve been outbid.

I own the contracts, indexing, website, and feature decisions, with design collaboration on the current UI/UX. Curator tools are part of the ongoing expansion.

I also built tests and deployment scripts, and documented LSSVM, building on sudoswap’s sudoAMM v2 protocol.

SolidityOn-chain indexingReactFarcaster

Explore the auction house ↗ CryptoArt Studio reference ↗ LSSVM development docs ↗

002 / SUCHBOT & THE SYSTEM BEHIND IT

Suchbot

An agent practice built around a shared document graph.

Suchbot is the public face of my ongoing work with Hermes: research, publishing, and creative tools people can use in the Farcaster timeline. Behind it is a larger experiment in giving an agent useful context and improving its behavior through daily use.

Logseq is the document graph. Its linked pages and blocks let me organize the notes that my agent and I work from. I initiated logseqd, a Clojure/DataScript service that makes that graph queryable by the agent and other tools, then added a mobile interface for capture and review.

Feedback becomes part of the system. Repeated writing corrections became a mechanical check before publication. Public interactions can consult explicitly published pages; a server-side gate keeps private documents out of that access path.

My role: I initiated the project, set the workflow and interface requirements, and tested it in daily use. Hermes contributed substantially to implementation.

Clojure DataScript Hermes PWA

Suchbot on Farcaster ↗ Read the blog ↗ Graph service: logseqd ↗ Integration template ↗

How it works Decisions, contribution & limitations

The decisions

A service around existing notes, rather than a separate knowledge silo. A mobile interface for quick capture. Journal upkeep shaped around conversation, because that’s how I naturally work.

My contribution

I initiated logseqd, set the workflow and interface requirements, and tested the system in daily use. Hermes contributed substantially to implementation.

The reality

A small, self-hosted system with ongoing maintenance. Logseq syntax, indexing, and mobile caching required iteration. The public template is an untested alpha; it is not a finished enterprise product.

BUILT WITH SUCHBOT

Projects I created with Suchbot’s help, extending the same agent practice into creative tools and public interfaces.

SUCHBOT / CREATIVE TOOLS

Glitch Pipeline

Generate an image and manipulate it, or chain operations on an existing image, directly in the Farcaster timeline. Without AI generation, image transformations can return almost immediately. For example:

@suchbot >> generate a flying cat | kaleidoscope::3 | pixel-sort::5

Open Glitch Pipeline ↗

SUCHBOT / PUBLIC INTERFACES

Such Snap

Suchbot can quickly create inline Farcaster UIs using prepared jsonrender templates for guides, tutorials, polls, quizzes, and token interactions. Interactive snaps store responses per user in SQLite, preserving votes and answers when people return and showing live results. Such Snap won a hackathon award leading up to FarCon Rome.

Explore Such Snap ↗

ALSO IN THE WORKSHOP such.gallery ↗ Rogue Pedicab ↗ GitHub ↗

02 / THE PERSON

Working with people.

At Charged Particles, I moved from development into project coordination, helping developers, designers, and leadership communicate about the work. At The Boston Globe, I built and maintained publishing sites and helped with a CMS migration.

I’m also a working bicycle mechanic, a former swimming instructor, and a former pedicab driver. I’m comfortable starting conversations, teaching, and helping when someone is frustrated. Understanding the person and explaining the next step are part of the work.

A lesson from the pool

An adult swimmer I met was working hard but afraid of the deep end. I noticed how much tension he carried and helped him practice moving with less effort. We worked together in short sessions alongside his own practice. About six months later, he was swimming with the masters program and covering at least a kilometer a day.

Experience & background ↗

An asymmetric cluster of reflective bead-like forms lit in blue and red, surrounded by purple texture, rendered by Max Jackson. — DAILY 3D PRACTICE / BLENDER

03 / CREATIVE PRACTICE

Art & daily practice

I make mandalas, abstract calligraphy, and generative art. Recently I started making a 3D render every day. The work here is part of that practice.

Visit the art portfolio ↗

04 / START A CONVERSATION

Get in touch

I’m looking for a forward deployed engineering role: working directly with people to understand their needs, build useful integrations, and support the software in use. If that sounds like your team, I’d like to talk.

Email me ↗