Max de Castro
I’m a student at the University of Pennsylvania, studying Computer Science and Political Science. I grew up between South Africa, Portugal, and Eswatini. I come from a family of entrepreneurs, so I spent my summers working in supermarkets, on construction sites, and in back-office insurance.
In high school, I built bots for sneaker drops in South Africa. The summer before university, I moved to rural Alberta to plant trees. I spent three months on a campsite with seventy people, without electricity beyond a generator. By the end of the summer, I had planted 75,000 trees.
I build AI products from 0 to 1. I work across product, design, and engineering.
Work
- Ramp, Applied AISummer 26
- Ramp Labs, Product EngineeringSpring 26
- Arc Institute, BioReason ProSpring 26
- Cresta, Product EngineeringSummer 25
Writing
- OpenAI Won't Let You Sell SoftwareA thesis for a consumer app store inside of ChatGPT