Max Gfeller

Max Gfeller is the tech lead for AI at Sutro, where the team builds AI infrastructure that generates production-grade backends from text prompts. He created OpenHarness, an open-source agent harness (400+ GitHub stars, 8k+ weekly npm downloads), and co-founded Storique.ai, an AI-powered personalized storybook platform that trains custom diffusion models on your photos. Max is writing a book on building agentic applications with CrewAI and MCP for Manning Publications. The book was released on Manning's Early Access Platform (MEAP) and has topped Manning's own bestseller list for the first few weeks. He has spoken at LambdaConf, Front Conference Zurich, and many other developer conferences.