Max Schmitt in San Francisco

Max Schmitt

Member of Technical Staff · Amazon AGI  |  Previously Microsoft Playwright

// currently_in: "San Francisco, CA"   37.7910° N, 122.4034° W

I'm an engineer at Amazon AGI, working on Amazon Nova Act — building AI agents for browser use. Previously, I spent 5 years as a core contributor to Microsoft Playwright across Python, .NET, Go, and the core framework. Passionate about AI agents, open source, and developer tooling.

Experience

Amazon AGI — Nova Act
Member of Technical Staff
2026 — present
Building AI agents for browser use. Working on Amazon Nova Act to enable autonomous web interaction.
Microsoft — Playwright
Software Engineer
2020 — 2025
Core contributor to Playwright (75k+ stars). Developed features across Python, .NET, Go bindings, core framework, and DevOps infrastructure. Conference speaker at Microsoft Build, .NET Conf, and more.

Recent Projects

Playwright

75k stars on GitHub: The leading end-to-end testing framework nowadays. I contributed extensively to core feature development, bug fixes, and the DevOps infrastructure (compiling browsers / automation).

action-tmate

3k stars on GitHub: Debug your GitHub Actions via SSH by using tmate to get access to the runner system itself.

playwright-python

13k stars on GitHub, 11 million downloads per month: Python version of the Playwright testing and automation library.

playwright-go

2.7k stars on GitHub: Playwright for Go, a browser automation library to control Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API.

Try Playwright

Try Playwright lets you execute and share Playwright scripts in your browser to get started with Playwright.

been

My personal travel tracker: an interactive world map and list showing all the countries I've visited. Forkable for anyone to track their own travels.

playwright-dotnet

2.7k stars on GitHub: .NET version of the Playwright testing and automation library for C# and other .NET languages.

pg-backup-scheduler

Self-hosted PostgreSQL backup scheduler with Docker-based version matching. Perfect for Supabase users avoiding premium backup costs. Built with Go - single binary, no dependencies beyond Docker.

Conference Talks

Advanced Playwright Debugging and Test Resilience

Microsoft | Build 2025

Playwright in Action: From Setup to Best Practices

Microsoft | JavaScript Dev Day 2024

Test automation with Playwright

Microsoft | Build 2023

Making Testing Fun with Playwright

LambdaTest | Testμ 2023

Testing Blazor Applications with Playwright

Microsoft | .NET Conf 2022

Blog Posts

Implementing Microsoft Entra Certificate-Based Authentication with Playwright

A comprehensive guide on implementing certificate-based authentication with Playwright for Microsoft Entra, covering phishing-resistant and passwordless authentication methods.