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Max Henkel-Wallace

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Software Engineer | Ex-AWS

Experienced and passionate Software engineer with Backend, Infrastructure and Data engineering specialty

Skills

Amazon Dynamodb

Amazon EC2

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

DBT

Data Engineering

Docker

Git

Google TensorFlow

GraphQL

Java

LaTeX

Linux

MySQL

NoSQL

NumPy

PostgreSQL

Python

Pandas

RESTful architecture

Redis

TypeScript

Unix

Open for

fulltime

cofounder

Work Experience

Numeral Inc

2023-11 - 2024-06

Workplace
Software Engineer
Location

Remote

Employement type

fulltime

• Second technical hire; spearheaded changes across entire stack, implementing infrastructure, database, server-side and client-side features • Designed and built a robust data pipeline using dbt, DuckDB, & PostgreSQL. On daily execution, pipeline would ingest, clean & transform >100 million rows of customer data across multiple data sources and upload to API • Collaborated with CTO to develop a robust, secure, high-performance REST API using express to serve up to >2000 requests per hour during peak times

Amazon Web Services Inc

2022-05 - 2023-11

Workplace
Software Development Engineer
Location

Remote

Employement type

fulltime

• Planned, built and deployed changes to the Build Time API. Wrote Java-based implementation, and leveraged AWS Step Functions, EC2, DynamoDB, S3, and Cloudformation stacks for execution • Developed a prototype to enhance existing Lex bots with LLM functionality. Using the Cloud Development Kit (CDK) to create all required infrastructure out of the box with minimal user involvement. This prototype was released externally and is publicly available. (article link, source code link) ◦ Indexing and runtime run in Lambda as dockerized ECS container images. Stored source files and indexes in S3. Hosted model in Sagemaker. Index updated by automatic event listener. ◦ Prototype has been cloned and utilized by >8 Solutions Architects • Developed a program in Python to scale EC2 hosts within impacted regions during EC2 outages. When one Availability Zone is impacted, the script automatically provisions and terminates hosts so that capacity is maintained but are moved out of the impacted zone

Academic Experience

New York University (NYU) -

 

2018.08 - 2022.05

Bachelor of Arts, BA in Data Science & Economics