Max McCorkel

Max McCorkel

AI-First Full-Stack Software Engineer

Inaugural Gauntlet AI Cohort, Q1 2025

BS Mathematics, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

10+ years software experience

Pinned Projects

Gauntlet Slack Clone

5-Day Build (3 iterations)

Summary: Sign up with our secure registration and chat with other users in real-time with the use of customizable channels, threads, or direct messages. Away from your computer at the moment? No problem, our AI personas are trained on your messages to respond just like you, and they can communicate critical project details while you are away.

Platform: Web

GitHub: GauntletSlack3, GauntletSlack2, GauntletSlack

Tech:

Cursor Blazor SSR WASM Hybrid Azure SWA Entra AWS Amplify Gen 2 AI dependency management PRD creation Gemini 1.5 Pro Co-Pilot ChatGPT Claude Monorepo Polyrepo Visual Studio AI slop AWS CloudFormation

Cooperstown Wisdom

12-Hour Build with AI Features

Summary: Join your favorite MLB team's channel and get any question answered by an AI "Old Timer" with knowledge of every MLB game and statistic.

Platform: Web

Deployed: mlb.tigerpanda.tv

GitHub: cooperstown-wisdom

Video: Coming Soon!

Tech:

Gemini 2.0 React Tailwind CSS Vite GitHub Actions Vite hotswap Pinecone Vector embeddings MLB datasets Lovable CI/CD AWS Route 53 SSL Cloudflare

Gauntlet Zendesk CRM Clone

5-Day Build + 5-Day AI Feature Enhancements

Summary: Get quick product support with access a customer service knowledgebase auto-translated into 5 different languages. Still need help? Use our simple web form to contact us or send an email to support@tigerpanda.tv. Our system will automatically create a ticket and route it to the best agent, supervisor, or administrator equipped to handle your case quickly and efficiently.

Platform: Email, Web

Deployed: crm.tigerpanda.tv

GitHub: next-autocrm

Tech:

Windsurf ChatGPT Plus RepoPrompt WorkSmart Next.js PRD templates GraphQL API AWS AppSync DynamoDB AWS SES AWS Lambda CDN caching DB caching Cloudflare DAX React MUI

Gauntlet Twitch Clone

5-Day Build + 5-Day AI Feature Enhancements

Summary: Sign-in, pick a username, and start watching your favorite streamers while chatting with other viewers. Switch to the Go Live screen, and you can begin livestreaming yourself, straight from your phone. Feel confident when watching with your family that no adult content will show up on the platform, as we deploy the latest in Automated AI Moderation.

Platform: iOS, Android

Deployed: Google Play, Apple App Store, stream.tigerpanda.tv

GitHub: tiktok-expo

Tech:

ReactNative Expo XCode iOS simulator Android/iOS deployment AWS IVS Low Latency S3 AWS Rekognition Event driven architecture AWS IVS chat React Native libraries

Streaming Services & WebRTC Exploratory

10-Day Research Project

Summary: Recognize certain actions and desktop application feedback using a user's webcam and desktop screen capture, then give them instant feedback.

Platform: MacOS, Windows

Tech:

RTMP WebRTC SRT HLS x264 x265 AV1 AWS ECS AWS Fargate Go Wails AWS Kinesis IVS Real Time MediaMTX BroadcastBox OBS AWS SageMaker AVA v2.1

Personal Health Vault

24-Hour Hackathon with AI Features

Summary: Sync up with every doctor, hospital, and medical system that has patient records for you or your family, and securely gather and store them all in one place. Integrate with over 27,000 medical systems to access your data, and chat in natural language with a completely isolated local AI to get quick answers to private health questions. Users have the option to anonymize their health data and get an instant second opinion from AI models trained on every new medical journal, or find new clinical trials your patient history qualifies you for, or screen your health record for potentially deadly vaccine and drug interactions- all while keeping your data safe. Presented by Max M, Nick P, and Ryan Z.

Platform: iOS, Android, Web (Integrations)

Deployed: Google Play

GitHub: mnr-hackathon-mobile, mnr-hackathon, Ollama, fasten-onprem

Video: Coming Soon!

Tech:

Fasten Fasten Connect SMART on FHIR Claude Code ngrok Caddy Nginx Docker Ollama Llama 3.2 MCP servers Go ReactNative Expo

Self-Service Email Forwarding

2-Day Build

Summary: You don't have to pay $10 per month to ProtonMail for custom domain emails! Keep your @gauntletai.com email by using a self-service portal to setup a forwarding address, and pay just pennies per 1000 emails forwarded.

Platform: Email, Web

Deployed: POC running on any email sent to @tigerpanda.tv domain to forward to my personal email

Video: Coming Soon!

Tech:

SMTP TLS AWS SES S3 Lambda Email forwarding

OBS Streamer Presence Detection

3-Day Build In-Progress

Summary: Imagine you're livestreaming and need to answer a phone call, use the restroom, or feed your pets. Do you ever forget to hit the mute button or switch the OBS scene? I know I have. Now you don't need to worry about it- with this project, an AI model will automatically detect when you're out of frame on your webcam and do the muting and scene switching for you!

Platform: MacOS, Windows, Linux

Deployed: Coming Soon!

GitHub: Coming Soon!

Video: Coming Soon!

Tech:

Local AI vision model OpenAI OBS ASS

Secure Cloud-Hosted Personal Health Vault

2.5-Week Build Planned

Summary: Non-technical users can now use our app with a fully secure, HIPAA-compliant, cloud-hosted solution for a nominal fee.

Platform: iOS, Android, Web

Deployed: Coming Soon!

GitHub: Coming Soon!

Video: Coming Soon!

Tech:

BAA Fasten Connect FHIR db Azure AWS Data encryption Audit logs EULA Data breach disclosure Access management PII anonymization

About Me

Max McCorkel

I'm an AI-First Full-Stack Software Engineer with a passion for solving complex problems and building innovative solutions. With a background in mathematics and over 10 years of software experience, I've worked across various industries including finance, healthcare, and technology.

When I'm not coding, you can find me exploring the latest in AI technology, contributing to open-source projects, or sharing knowledge with the developer community. I believe in the power of technology to transform industries and improve lives, and I'm excited to be part of this rapidly evolving field.

I'm currently based in Austin, TX attending the Gauntlet AI program, and I am always open to connecting with like-minded professionals and discussing new opportunities in the AI and software engineering space.

Education and Work Experiences

California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Cal Poly SLO

Gauntlet AI

Gauntlet AI

Micron

Micron

Merrill Lynch

Merrill Lynch

E*Trade

E*Trade

Weatherford

Weatherford

General Atomics

General Atomics

MasterControl

MasterControl

Homie

Homie

Carvana

Carvana

Photon Medical Communications

Photon Medical Communications

What I'm Looking For

Other big areas of interest and startup ideas

Streaming Video with Portable Hardware/Real Time Streaming Protocols

Could we make a livestreamer hobbyist solution better than streaming from your phone and cheaper than a $3-10k streamer backpack? Could we get rid of the 5-10 second delay for streamers reacting to their large audience when they're in the middle of a city with 5G internet. Could we leverage data bonding to multiple edge network data centers or P2P WebRTC to enable 4K video?

Portable Healthcare Records/AI-Enabled Healthcare Records

Could we make it easier for you to get all of your health records from every doctor you've visited? Most doctors seem to already be a part of an HIE, but patients don't have access to it. What needs to change to give patients access to that? Could we make it easier for 3rd party app developers with aggregated patient data to keep an authorized data source attached to the health record so that doctors aren't hesitant to import data, so how do we solve this? TEFCA is coming which could help a lot with record portability, but it's probably going to be expensive- is there a way to improve it or lobby for laws/regulations to give cheaper and wider access?

Inequitable Access to AI-Accelerated Learning Programs with ESA's or Vouchers

A big problem with education vouchers seems to be that students who rely on support staff in public school because of disabilities or medical conditions, or who otherwise can't leave the public staff in public school because of disabilities or medical conditions, or who otherwise can't leave the public school system, don't have access to the same opportunities as other students who can leverage vouchers to attend private school or use it for programs like "2-Hour Learning". I would love to help figure out how to bridge this gap to give access for accelerated AI-learning programs to students even if they are blind, deaf, or suffer from a debilitating medical condition. There's a lot of pushback on the idea of ESA's across the country, and addressing these concerns to include these protected classes in future plans would make the concept much more palatable.

AI Boot Camp for Enterprise Coding

Make a "graduate" GauntletAI program focused specifically on the skills needed for an AI Engineer to operate in large corporate or enterprise environments. Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and others are investing billions of dollars in fine tuning models and creating tools used for massive codebases with thousands of user requests every second, but GauntletAI has barely touched on any of them like Poolside, Gemini Code Assist for Enterprise, and GitHub Copilot Pro. How do you blackbox and abstract massive interconnected webs of services, databases, and analytics? What is the best way to communicate standards to the LLM to maintain uniformity throughout your codebase? How do you have the LLM enforce security and mitigate risks to exposing new vulnerabilities with AI-generated code? How are previous assumptions around tech debt, product management, and adopting new tools and technology affected by moving towards an AI-First mindset? GauntletAI Graduate could also emphasize model choice, LLM evaluations, or machine learning best practices from a seasoned Data Scientist could be included.

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