Max Hoffman
Software Engineer at Meta
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMax Hoffman is a software engineer with a decade of experience building data systems, currently developing a SQL optimizer on Meta's MLDP team after architecting a SQL database at DoltHub. He has deep backend expertise in database internals and error-handling, evidenced by contributions to the MySQL-compatible go-mysql-server and productionizing storage-agnostic query engines. Max blends academic rigor from MD training and ML work at Washington University with startup grit as a founding engineer at Gantry and engineering roles at Factual. Based in Mountain View, he pairs systems-level thinking with practical testing and refactoring habits, and often surfaces subtle correctness fixes that improve long-running distributed databases.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Medicine - MD, Doctor of Medicine - MD at Washington University School of Medicine in St. LouisBachelor's degree Chemistry & Mathematics, Bachelor's degree Chemistry & Mathematics at Pomona College
Github Skills (6)
error-handling10
go10
mysql10
database9
unit-testing9
databases9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
dolthub/go-mysql-server
Feb 2021 - Jan 2023
A MySQL-compatible relational database with a storage agnostic query engine. Implemented in pure Go.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1141 reviews, 295 commits, 681 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Max primarily focused on improving error handling within the MySQL server implementation. They implemented specific error code fixes, added tests for error code casting, and refactored code for better readability and code re-use, with particular emphasis on handling "table not found" errors. Their work demonstrates a strong understanding of the underlying MySQL server's error handling mechanisms.
golangqueryrelationalquery-enginesql-server
dolthub/dolt-action
May 2021 - Jan 2022
Contributions:17 releases, 109 commits, 11 PRs in 7 months
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