Max Ferguson
Founder & CEO at Lumin
Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolMax Ferguson is the founder and CEO of Lumin, a Christchurch-based PDF collaboration platform that he built as a student and has grown to serve 65 million users while leading a distributed team of 50+. A Fulbright scholar with a PhD in Civil Engineering and Computer Science from Stanford, he combines rigorous academic research—building mobile construction robots and AI-driven vision systems—with more than a decade of product delivery experience. Max brings a rare blend of civil engineering domain knowledge and hands-on software entrepreneurship, shipping an initial product in three weeks and scaling it into a global service. He is passionate about software accessibility and embeds inclusive design into Lumin’s product strategy so software works for people regardless of location or status. Under his leadership the company has stayed mission-driven while navigating technical and operational growth across time zones.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Civil Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Civil Engineering at University of CanterburyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Civil Engineering & Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Civil Engineering & Computer Science at Stanford University
English
Github Skills (64)
convolutional-neural-networks10
geometry10
segmentation10
scrollspy10
transfer-learning10
digital-signature9
signature9
computer-vision8
api8
cdn8
robotics8
sql7
database7
scroll7
embedded7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
arunoda/meteor-heapsave
Mar 2016 - Aug 2025
Take Heapdumps and save them into S3
Contributions:2 PRs in 9 years 6 months
aws
Nitrolabs/meteor-accounts-box
Oct 2014 - Jul 2017
Contributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 8 pushes in 2 years 9 months
meteorboxauthenticationoauth2-loginoauth2
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