MaksLabs
Ancient Wisdom,
Modern Tools.
Technology projects at the intersection of software and the ancient world — translating Hebrew texts, navigating immigration law, and reconstructing lost family histories.
Work
Projects
Each project applies modern software to a problem rooted in ancient languages, history, or tradition.
Hebrew PDF Translator
In ProgressAncient texts, readable today
A tool that ingests scanned or digital Hebrew PDFs — rabbinic responsa, historical documents, liturgical texts — and produces accurate, readable English translations using modern LLMs with domain-specific prompting.
Aliyah Navigator
In ProgressGuiding the journey home
A practical app for people making aliyah (immigrating to Israel), consolidating the bureaucratic requirements, timelines, and document checklists scattered across government sites and community wikis into one clear interface.
Census Analysis
PrototypeGenealogy meets data science
Tools for parsing and cross-referencing historical census records — particularly Jewish community records from Eastern Europe — to reconstruct family trees and migration patterns obscured by transliteration and record gaps.
About
The Mission
Ancient texts carry millennia of knowledge, law, and culture — but they're locked behind language barriers, inaccessible formats, and fragmented archives. MaksLabs builds tools to change that.
Whether it's parsing census records, translating Hebrew manuscripts, or navigating the complexities of aliyah, every project here starts with the same question: what problem does technology uniquely solve for someone engaging with ancient material?
This is a personal lab — experiments, prototypes, and tools in various stages of development.