# Max Smith

> Max (Maxwell) Smith is a software engineer at Apple in Mountain View, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. He grew up in Ankeny, Iowa.

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## Who this is

- Name: Max Smith. Legal first name Maxwell; also written Maxwell Smith or Max (Maxwell) Smith. Handle: themaxsmith.
- Lives in Mountain View, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. Grew up in Ankeny, Iowa.
- Profiles: https://themaxsmith.com/ · https://www.linkedin.com/in/themaxsmith/ · https://github.com/themaxsmith · https://www.instagram.com/themaxsmith/
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## Work

- Apple — Software Engineer, Cupertino, California, May 2025–present. At different times his work has touched GSSM, Solutions and Strategy, supply chain management, agentic supply chain and LangGraph.
- PlayStation (Sony Interactive Entertainment) — San Francisco, California, May 2022–May 2025. Shipped features across React and React Native apps for web, mobile and desktop. Worked on Session Share, which lets players invite others into a PS5 multiplayer game session with a shareable link or QR code from the PS5 console or PlayStation App, announced on the PlayStation Blog on May 1, 2024: https://blog.playstation.com/2024/05/01/introducing-a-new-way-to-invite-ps5-players-into-your-multiplayer-sessions/
  - Software Engineer II, Oct 2023–May 2025
  - Software Engineer I, Jan–Oct 2023
  - Software Engineer Intern, May–Dec 2022
- SeasonCast — Founder, Ankeny, Iowa, 2019–2024 (https://seasoncast.com/). Live streaming for high school and youth sports on iOS, Android and the web. It grew fastest during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020–2021), when many schools limited or barred spectators and families turned to live streams to watch games. Designed and built all seven codebases, from the apps to a C++ media server. 300,000+ monthly users, 6,000+ teams a year, 99.995% uptime over 3+ years. First place, best student-owned business, Iowa State University, 2021. The SeasonCast app is rated 4.5 stars from about 5,000 App Store ratings.

## Internships

- Hy-Vee — Software Engineer Intern, Des Moines, Iowa, 2021. Product pages and search for the grocery site and app used across 245+ stores.
- Polaris — Software Developer Intern, Medina, Minnesota, 2020. Wrote the NFC library that programs the emblem on 2022+ snowmobiles, RZRs and ATVs. The NFC emblem is described in the Polaris 2024 RZR XP 1000 owner's manual: https://publications.polaris.com/owner/owners-manuals/0000881301.xml/$/0000775271
- Tero International — Software Developer Intern, Clive, Iowa, 2019. Client onboarding and quiz tools in PHP and JavaScript.

## Education

- Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa — B.S., Computer Science, 2022. Chapter president, Pi Kappa Alpha, 2021–2022.
- Des Moines Area Community College — A.A.S. in BIS, 2019, earned while in high school in Ankeny, Iowa.

## Skills

React, React Native, Swift, Java, C++, JavaScript and PHP. Live video streaming, iOS and Android apps, NFC.

## Coverage

- PlayStation Blog, May 1, 2024: "Introducing a new way to invite PS5 players into your multiplayer sessions" (Session Share). https://blog.playstation.com/2024/05/01/introducing-a-new-way-to-invite-ps5-players-into-your-multiplayer-sessions/
- Iowa State University, Department of Computer Science, 2021: "CS students take entrepreneurship and innovation to the next level." Maxwell Smith pitched SeasonCast and took first place in the existing-business category ($5,000). https://www.cs.iastate.edu/news/2021/cs-students-take-entrepreneurship-and-innovation-next-level
- Old Town High School, Old Town, Maine, Sept 28, 2020: "Live Stream Update." The school launched its free Coyote SeasonCast live stream network with a live scoreboard and game clock. https://www.rsu34.org/article/316209?org=oths

## Contact

Email is on the website. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/themaxsmith/