My name is Max Beatty. I used to be a secu­rity ana­lyst for Accen­ture, and stayed up late improv­ing my design and devel­op­ment skills. When I decided I wasn’t enjoy­ing that any­more, I packed my car and moved to Sil­i­con Val­ley to be a front end engi­neer at Reputation.com. I still dab­ble design­ing iPhone apps and hack­ing on side projects in my spare time.

My life in less than 500 char­ac­ters: I grew up in Indi­anapo­lis, Indi­ana lov­ing bas­ket­ball and math. Their com­pet­i­tive­ness and logic lead me to com­put­ers and an appre­ci­a­tion for secu­rity and usabil­ity. I grad­u­ated from Indi­ana Uni­ver­sity in Bloom­ing­ton, Indi­ana in May 2009 earn­ing a BS degree in Infor­mat­ics with cog­nates in Cyber Secu­rity and Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions. My pas­sions include sim­ple, intu­itive design and help­ing every­day peo­ple keep their sen­si­tive infor­ma­tion secure with ease.

I’m not a pure designer or devel­oper. When I do one, I keep the other in mind. The result is both aes­thet­i­cally and seman­ti­cally pleasing.