Max Heinritz is a founding staff software engineer with 13 years of experience building production-ready systems for logistics, mapping, and satellite imagery workflows. Currently at Loop, he brings early-stage startup grit to freight audit and payment while previously leading transportation automation and trucking initiatives at Flexport. His background spans product and engineering roles at Google—where he led client work on Earth Engine and earlier contributed to Chrome platform efforts—giving him a strong blend of product sense and technical depth. A hands-on backend contributor to notable open-source projects like rubocop, he has improved static analysis accuracy and added autocorrect features that benefit thousands of Ruby developers. Based in Chicago and trained in both computer science and economics at Penn, he pairs geographic and data-driven instincts with a taste for “pretty, useful” interfaces—especially map-centric ones.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BAS Computer Science BS Economics, BAS Computer Science BS Economics 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