I am Max Beatty. By day, I am a secu­rity ana­lyst spe­cial­iz­ing in iden­tify and access man­age­ment for Accen­ture. At night, I stay up late improv­ing my design and devel­op­ment skills while blog­ging occa­sion­ally. Dur­ing the rest of my wak­ing hours, I con­sume every­thing tech­nol­ogy– from star­tups to stan­dards to secu­rity. My friends don’t under­stand it, but I love it.

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 (like minors) 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.