Credential
Claude Certified Architect - Foundations
Claude Code, the Agent SDK, the API, and MCP.
Anthropic on the certifications
About
I live in Chicago and spend most of my days on operations software: workflows, automation, AI, and the apps that sit around it, including CarbonApps. monday.com is usually where that work starts. The useful part is the vantage point. Labs, customers, and the teams in between, all in the same month.
I have been in that work since 2018, with a year at Micro1 in the middle. The practice I help run went from a handful of people to about 80. Ohio State, computer science engineering, in 2023. Claude Certified Architect - Foundations in 2026. Vin & Miles is an iOS app from RCBM Labs.
Now
Still building.
I work with leadership every day on what the firm should do next: delivery, architecture, and the product work around monday.com.
carbonweb.coTimeline
2026
RCBM Labs
Vin & Miles
Finds VIN, odometer, and stock photos on the phone. Nothing is uploaded. On the App Store.
2023
Education
The Ohio State University
Graduated in 2023.
Capstone
Honda Manufacturing of North America
Plant-floor OCR, built before GPT-class models. Honda still uses it.
2022
Work
monday.com practice
Came back in 2022 and built the monday.com practice: how work gets delivered, how systems get designed, who gets hired, and the apps around it, including CarbonApps. Platinum Partner.
- ~80
- people, from ~5
- Platinum
- monday.com partner
2021
Consulting
Micro1 and FileVine
Helped establish Micro1 as it came off the Moontek name and the FileVine partnership. Today it works with frontier labs to strengthen their models, and is reportedly at a $500M gross run rate.
2018
Co-founder
Recharge Rally
Co-founded the rally, still running. Started as a web developer the same year.
Outside of work
Travel, food, skiing, cars.
New photos go on Unsplash. The grid is that feed.
unsplash.com/@maxbrinton
Contact
Email or LinkedIn is fastest.
Max Brinton ยท Chicago