

Max Henkel-Wallace
Location
Zürich
Expertise
Software Engineering (Cloud infra, Data, & more)
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
Software Engineer
Remote
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
Software Development Engineer
Remote
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