Max Leiter

Max Leiter works on Claude Code at Anthropic. He previously helped create v0 and the AI SDK at Vercel and maintains open-source web projects including The Lounge and Drift.

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Based in: San Francisco
Elsewhere

Anthropic

Apr 2026 — Present

Member of Technical Staff

Vercel

Staff Software Engineer
Nov 2024 — Mar 2026
San Francisco, California, United States
Senior Software Engineer
Nov 2023 — Nov 2024
San Francisco, California, United States
Software Engineer
Aug 2022 — Nov 2023
San Francisco, California, United States
Software Engineering Intern
Feb 2020 — Aug 2020

Blend

May 2021 — Aug 2021

Software Engineer

USC Annenberg Media

Aug 2019 — Nov 2020

App Developer

University of Southern California

Bachelor's studies in software

Woodside Priory School

University of Southern California

Bachelor's studies in software

Products & media

maxleiter.com

thank u, next

Max describes replacing his personal site’s framework with a custom build system, reporting performance measurements and the maintenance tradeoffs of owning the implementation.

Writing

maxleiter.com

Running Linux desktops on an iPad

Max documents xiOS: porting Wayland, X11 and Linux desktop environments to an iPad with Metal rendering, UIKit integration and LLM-assisted build tooling.

Writing

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Max Leiter

Anthropic

Vercel

Staff Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer

Software Engineer

Software Engineering Intern

Blend

USC Annenberg Media

University of Southern California

Woodside Priory School

University of Southern California

Products & media

thank u, next

Running Linux desktops on an iPad

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