Summary
Max Beckett is a Senior Engineer with 13 years of experience designing, building, and operating high-performance, cloud-scale distributed systems, currently contributing to Datadog's storage platform. His background includes deep hands-on experience at AWS across EBS and EFS—spanning dataplane engineering, volume hydration, snapshot workflows, and managing three teams responsible for shipping massive amounts of data reliably. Prior roles at MongoDB, Rift.io, and The MathWorks show a steady focus on storage, distributed transaction systems, and analysis tooling, underpinned by an MSECE from Northeastern. Max blends individual contributor depth with engineering leadership, comfortable moving between system design, large-data movement, and operational excellence. Based in the Nashville area, he brings a practitioner’s eye for production reliability and performance at cloud scale, with a track record of shipping complex storage features end-to-end.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
MSECE Computer Engineering, MSECE Computer Engineering at Northeastern University
B.S Computer Science, B.S Computer Science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges
French