Max Huddleston
Toronto,,Canada
Summary
Self-motivated, team-oriented, and driven 11th grader. A student leader nominated and voted Captain of student government by entire faculty and student body, and president and coach of the UTS Cybersecurity Club and Hacking team. A software developer with experience in 7 programming languages, with cross-platform app, web, IoT, and robotics development. A lacrosse player with 8 years of experience in both box and field lacrosse. A certified ski instructor, sailor, piano player, and a learner of Russian, German, and French.
Overview
2
2
years of professional experience
Work History
Cybersecurity Club and Hacking Team
Founder and President
09.2024 - Current
- Developing and managing several teams of white-hat hackers to compete in hacking contests.
- Teaching hacking and cybersecurity principles to students (grades 7-12).
- Grew club from 1 to 37 members.
- Organizing club meetings for a diverse pool of students across Toronto.
UTS Textbook Exchange
Lead Developer and Manager
06.2024 - Current
- Created website to facilitate textbook exchange for high school students.
- Maintaining website for use by those at the University of Toronto Schools.
Beast Athletics
Volunteer Local Camp Counsellor
06.2023 - Current
- Organizing and running training drills in multi-sport camp.
- Coaching and motivating kids in competition.
- Teaching lacrosse and soccer fundamentals to children (aged 7-12).
- Speaking with parents and guardians, providing daily updates.
Craigleith Ski Club
U8 Ski Instructor
03.2023 - 03.2024
- Handling accidents and emergencies; preparing courses and organizing lessons.
- Entertaining children (age 6-9) and leading younger instructors (age 14-15).
- Speaking with parents and guardians, providing daily updates.
Education
High School Diploma -
University of Toronto Schools
Toronto, Canada06-2026
Skills
- Front-end Development with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery
- Back-end Development with Nodejs, Python, Java
- Cross-platform App and Game Development with Flutter, C, C#, and Unity
- Machine Learning with Tensorflow and Keras
Statistical Analysis with Octave and MATLAB
Data Management with MySQL, MongoDB, Oracle, and Pandas
- IoT hardware development tools
- AutoCAD
- German proficiency
Individual Projects
- Web design, UTS textbook exchange website, which connects students to buy and sell used textbooks, 05/2024
- Researching and testing music generation solutions, with LSTM and GAN models, 05/2024-present
- A four-axis robotic arm, with the purpose of catching a ping pong ball. Uses a ball tracking system that triangulates and calculates the position and velocity of the ping pong ball, 05/2022-05/2023
- Multilayer Perceptron Network Framework in C++, used to create a model against the MNIST handwritten digit dataset with 96.5% sample accuracy., 05/2021
- Cats vs. Dogs game, trained MLP networks using a reinforcement learning algorithm to dodge the dogs as the cat, 05/2021
- Smart Security Camera, uses facial recognition to determine security access, made with a Raspberry Pi, which can be accessed remotely through a website, providing a live feed., 05/2021
- Multiple original puzzles and puzzle games, designed, 3D printed and launched to family and friends with instructions for use, 05/2020-present
Accomplishments
- PicoCTF by CMU, top 5% (2025)
- Perfect Score, Canadian Computing Competition (2025)
- 2nd Place, Ontario High school German Competition (2025)
- Canadian National History Bowl 2nd place, Teams (2024)
- Canadian Computing Competition, high distinction (2024)
- Captain of Toronto Beaches Field Lacrosse U17 (2024).
- German A2 Certification. (2023)
- PicoCTF by CMU, 3rd place individual US middle school (2022)
- The Principal’s List, top 5% of class (2022 at Upper Canada College)
- J.L. Somerville Prize for Mathematics (2021 at Upper Canada College)
Teamwork
- Founder of Cybersecurity Club, 37 members
- UTS Math Club Team - competed in ARML at the Pennsylvania State University
- IHBB (History Bowl) Jr. Varsity
- Club Lacrosse: Team Ontario Lacrosse, Toronto Beaches Lacrosse Box and Field
- Varsity Basketball, Varsity Volleyball, Varsity Soccer
- Senior Jazz Band (alto + baritone saxophone)
- UTS Robotics and Coding Club Teams
- Black Equity Committee, Secretary
- Craigleith Ski Instructing Team
- UCC Competitive Coding Club Team Member (2021-2022)
Hobbies and Interests
- Coding
- Music (piano + saxophone)
- Lacrosse
- Skiing
- Sailing
- Learning languages
Timeline
Cybersecurity Club and Hacking Team
Founder and President
09.2024 - Current
UTS Textbook Exchange
Lead Developer and Manager
06.2024 - Current
Beast Athletics
Volunteer Local Camp Counsellor
06.2023 - Current
Craigleith Ski Club
U8 Ski Instructor
03.2023 - 03.2024
High School Diploma -
University of Toronto Schools
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