Max Hinkley is a consulting software and systems engineer with more than twenty years of experience delivering embedded, desktop, and distributed systems in safety‑critical and mission‑critical domains. He is the principal consultant at SafeCode, and he has worked across medical, aerospace, industrial, and security‑sensitive markets where firmware failure, data compromise, or downtime carries high regulatory and business costs. Max is known for combining secure coding practices with model‑driven engineering and pragmatic architecture, helping small engineering organizations raise their bar on reliability and safety without grinding development to a halt.