Max Woghiren

Here's what I'm up to right now. (This page was last updated on February 14th, 2022.)


Family

My wife Hayley and I are raising our two sons, Finnegan (five and half) and Elliot (almost four!).

Finn's reading ability is ramping up bigtime, and he is, at the moment, an endless question dispenser. The expressive way he moves his hands when he's excited about something he's talking about is hilarious.

Elliot remains in constant motion and provides unending vocal expression. He does know how to focus on Lego and magnetic tiles, though—construction manages to capture his attention.

The boys are obsessed with made-up languages. Finn's is basically "every word means its opposite"; Elliot's is "every word is some repeated pair of letters, like 'gogo' or 'kiki'".


Work

I'm a full-stack engineer at at Noom.


Recreation

Puzzling

I'm a member of ⛎Unicode Equivalence. In January, we managed to finish the 2022 MIT Mystery Hunt, finishing in fourth place!

Gaming

I've gotten sucked into osu!mania lately—it's my first foray into rhythm games since Rock Band, and it's… way harder… but I'm motivated to reach a point where I'm not objectively terrible!

Music

I'm an album looper. I get really into a few albums at a time and devour them.

Right now, it's still (still (still 🤦🏽‍♂️)) Sing to God by Cardiacs.

Edit Peptide by Bubblemath and From Silence to Somewhere by Wobbler are my primary alternatives.