Max Heinritz is a founding staff software engineer with 12 years of experience building transportation and geospatial systems, currently helping scale Loop’s freight audit and payment platform. He previously led transportation automation and trucking efforts at Flexport and served as client tech lead for Google Earth Engine, blending product sensibility with cloud-scale engineering. Max enjoys making "pretty, useful" things—especially maps—and brings that design-minded pragmatism to backend systems and APIs. He’s also an active open-source contributor to rubocop, improving cops and autocorrect behavior in a widely used Ruby linter. A Penn graduate (BAS Computer Science, BS Economics, summa cum laude), he relocated to Chicago to help seed a new engineering office, combining startup grit with deep technical chops.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BAS Computer Science, BS Economics, Summa Cum Laude, BAS Computer Science, BS Economics, Summa Cum Laude at University of Pennsylvania
A Ruby static code analyzer and formatter, based on the community Ruby style guide.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Contributions:6 commits, 38 PRs, 58 comments in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Max primarily contributed to bug fixes and feature enhancements within the Ruby code analysis and formatting tool, RuboCop. Their work involved modifying existing cops, such as `Style/RedundantParentheses` and `MethodCallWithArgsParentheses`, to improve the accuracy of code style checking. The user also added new cops, such as those related to multiline element line breaks, and implemented autocorrection capabilities to automate code formatting. Further contributions included addressing configuration-related issues and refining existing functionality.
Contributions:10 reviews, 185 PRs, 233 pushes in 10 months
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Max Heinritz - Founding Staff Software Engineer at Loop