Max Dietz
Vice President at PDT Partners
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolMax Dietz is a technology executive and software engineer with 14 years of experience building cloud-scale systems and leading engineering teams, currently serving as Vice President at PDT Partners in New York. He previously contributed to Google Cloud Pub/Sub as a backend engineer, authoring infrastructure for load testing and GCE orchestration and integrating metrics pipelines—work that demonstrates comfort with distributed systems and operational tooling. Earlier roles include CTO at a startup and practical systems work dating back to municipal data projects, reflecting an ability to move between hands-on implementation and strategic leadership. His open-source contributions span high-profile projects like GoogleCloudPlatform/pubsub and h5py, showing both cloud infrastructure expertise and low-level data-format interoperability. Trained in mathematics and computer science at Wesleyan, he combines analytical rigor with production software experience to deliver reliable, measurable systems.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Mathematics and Computer Science at Wesleyan UniversityHigh School, High School at Choate Rosemary Hall
French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (29)
hdf10
google-cloud-platform10
python10
java10
gcp10
javas10
google-cloud-pubsub10
cython10
google-compute-engine10
pubsub10
buffering9
buffer9
grpc9
fileio9
file-access9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
GoogleCloudPlatform/pubsub
Jul 2016 - Nov 2017
This repository contains open-source projects managed by the owners of Google Cloud Pub/Sub.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:243 commits, 52 PRs, 221 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Max's commits focus on developing the core functionality for the Google Cloud Pub/Sub load test framework. They implemented features related to setting up and orchestrating client instances on Google Compute Engine (GCE). The work includes defining and creating instance templates, managed instance groups, and uploading files for use in the tests. They also integrated the project's systems with metrics reporting tools.
gcpownersgooglegoogle-cloud-platformpub-sub
h5py/h5py
Jul 2018 - Aug 2018
HDF5 for Python -- The h5py package is a Pythonic interface to the HDF5 binary data format.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 5 comments in 19 days
Contributions summary:Max's contributions primarily revolve around updating and refining the `h5f.pyx` file, which is part of the h5py Python library. Their changes involve incorporating new features related to file image handling, including `open_file_image`, and adapting to different versions of HDF5. The commits also include fixes to ensure the correct use of the file image features and integration of the `PyBuffer` protocol for handling image data.
h5pybinary-datapythondata-formathdf5
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