Max Illfelder
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolMax Illfelder is a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google with 12 years of experience building and maintaining cloud infrastructure and image management tooling. Based in Seattle and trained in computer science at Carnegie Mellon, he focuses on backend systems that ensure secure, reliable VM image lifecycle and account management. His open-source contributions include significant enhancements to Google Compute Engine image packages and the Apache Libcloud GCE driver, adding features like image family support, image copying, OS Login improvements, and better SSH/key handling. Max blends deep platform knowledge with practical scripting and daemon work, showing a knack for fixing subtle security and operational edge cases such as 2FA enablement and IP alias support. Colleagues rely on him for durable, production-grade fixes that span both cloud APIs and the low-level tooling that keeps instances healthy.
12 years of coding experience
Computer Science, Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (12)
libcloud10
account-management10
linux10
google-cloud-platform10
image-management10
api10
python10
apidoc10
gcp10
testing9
bash9
api-design8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
GoogleCloudPlatform/compute-image-packages
Jun 2014 - Dec 2019
Packages for Google Compute Engine Linux images.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:45 releases, 403 commits, 509 PRs in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Max primarily contributed to the Google Compute Engine Linux image packages, with a focus on maintaining and updating the OS Login user account management tools. Their work involved modifying scripts for the accounts daemon, enhancing the ability to update user groups, and correcting the handling of SSH keys. Additionally, they added support for setting OS Login enablements, enabling two-factor authentication, and implemented features for IP alias support.
google-compute-enginelinux
apache/libcloud
Feb 2016 - Apr 2017
Apache Libcloud is a Python library that hides differences between different cloud provider APIs and allows you to manage different cloud resources through a unified and easy-to-use API.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 11 PRs, 16 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Max primarily contributed to the Google Compute Engine (GCE) driver within the Apache Libcloud project. Their work focused on enhancing image management capabilities, including adding support for image families, copying images, and undeprecating images. They implemented features related to guest OS features and addressed issues related to image search and the copy image logic. They also updated the code to match the create image logic and addressed code documentation type information.
libcloudpythoncloudapache
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