| Website | maxengel.com |
| Blog | 8bitkid.com |
| @8bitkid | |
| Birthplace | Washington, D.C. |
| Birthdate | 3/15/84 |
| Yale University, BA | 2006 |
| Psychology |
Max Engel
Max Engel currently works as a Senior Product Manager on the Digital Entertainment and Games team for the BBC Worldwide. He is responsible for the development of games and social experiences related to BBC brands and content.
Previously, Max worked in product management at Gravity, a startup building products and technology around the Interest Graph – an online representation of real world interests based on what people do and say on the social web.
Before joining Gravity in the summer of 2009, Max was the product lead for MySpaceID. Max joined MySpace in June 2008 to help create an open platform that gives developers access to the MySpace social layer. The initiative embraces standards such as OpenSocial, OAuth, and OpenID to provide a robust identity platform to the community.
Prior to MySpace, Max was at Yahoo!, initially with the Games team working on community tools for developers and players, and then later became a member the Yahoo! Open Strategy initiative where he worked on their application platform and OpenSocial implementation.
He holds a BA in Psychology from Yale University.
