PUBLIC DOSSIER · 2026
Maxwell Young
Product Engineer
maxwell@ninetynine.digital
dev.maxwellyoung.info
Product engineer working across mobile apps and research software. Led Silk's React Native app from its first build through launch and ongoing delivery across iOS and Android. Combine interaction design with architecture, performance, accessibility, and regression testing.
Experience
Silk is a platform for blogging, private archives, and multimedia moodboards. Led its React Native app from initial build through launch and now lead ongoing delivery.
- Built the initial mobile foundation and turned early product direction into production architecture, interface systems, and media-heavy flows.
- Own performance, accessibility, and release reliability across iOS and Android, using regression coverage and real-device checks to validate changes.
Design and build research applications end to end, from the user experience through to implementation, including Rx-Opt and MRB-QoL 2.0.
- Own UX and interface design, application architecture, frontend and backend implementation, and testing in collaboration with researchers.
- Build clinician assessment and review workflows, patient questionnaires, and researcher dashboards. Validate data and keep source provenance visible within the applications.
Independent product and client studio for mobile apps, web products, and CMS-backed portfolio work.
- Take independent mobile and web products from interaction design through implementation, release, and iteration.
- Delivered client sites with Next.js and Sanity for Ch'lita Collins (Fashion Editor-at-Large at i-D) and artist Dayle Palfreyman, plus Shopify performance and layout stability work for Goodness Gracious.
Mobile research tooling for sleep-session analysis and review.
- Built a React Native and Expo app for session review, questionnaires, and sleep-stage visualization.
- Integrated mobile, backend, and model-inference workflows for research use.
Internal analytics dashboard work for Spark's data intelligence team.
- Helped replace Power BI workflows with a React and Next.js dashboard.
- Built interface patterns and design system components for the team.
Flagship work
Mobile lead for Silk's iOS and Android app, from first build through launch, performance work, and ongoing releases.
- Built the mobile app from zero to launch as mobile lead
- Own architecture, performance, and accessibility across iOS and Android
End-to-end design and development of research applications at the University of Auckland.
- Design and build research applications end to end
- Develop clinician-facing assessment and source-review workflows for Rx-Opt
iPhone support for quitting vaping: track progress, reflect on triggers, and reach an AI coach.
- Live on the iOS App Store
- Solo-designed tracking, coaching, and relapse-support flows
A visual workspace for organizing songs and planning releases.
- Solo-designed and built web workspace for songs and releases
- Custom canvas with frames, notes, and audio playback
Portfolio for Ch'lita Collins — Fashion Editor-at-Large at i-D — built around fast image browsing and quiet editorial motion.
- Sanity-backed publishing flow for updating portfolio work without code changes
- Responsive image treatment keeps the work prominent across mobile and desktop
T3 Code inside Minecraft, featured in a Theo video and my most-starred GitHub project.
- 15 GitHub stars as of September 2026, my most-starred public repo
- Featured in Theo's Anthropic Actually Fixed Opus
Capabilities
TypeScript · React · React Native · Next.js · Expo · SwiftUI · Tailwind CSS · Framer Motion
Node.js · PostgreSQL · Convex · Supabase · Prisma
Figma · Design Systems · Interaction Design · Prototyping
Three.js / WebGL · Accessibility (WCAG) · Performance (Core Web Vitals) · Claude / OpenAI APIs