Max Lipschultz
Sales Engineer, Google Cloud
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMax Lipschultz is a seasoned cloud architect and sales engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience designing, automating, and securing large-scale infrastructure for enterprises across finance and retail. Based in San Francisco and currently at Google Cloud, he blends deep infrastructure expertise—VMware, private clouds, AD RBAC, networking—with customer-facing technical strategy to drive business transformation. At Macy’s he led cloud adoption and automation, and prior roles show extensive systems and project leadership rebuilding DR sites, enterprise storage, and global networking. An active open-source contributor, he enhanced Apache Libcloud’s Google Compute Engine driver—adding node labels, firewall features, and tests—demonstrating practical Python and GCE API skills that complement his product-focused consulting. Known as a dependable technical partner, he often serves as the go-to engineer for complex, enterprise-level design and delivery.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Political Science, BA, Political Science at University of Massachusetts Amherst
Github Skills (9)
libcloud10
firewall10
cloud-infrastructure10
cloud-services10
python10
api-design10
gcp10
testing9
network-configuration9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
apache/libcloud
Sep 2017 - Mar 2018
Apache Libcloud is a Python library which 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 & Cloud Engineer
Back-end Developer & Cloud EngineerContributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 5 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Max primarily contributed to the Google Compute Engine (GCE) node driver within the Apache Libcloud library. Their work involved implementing new features such as support for node labels and expanding firewall rule options, enhancing the library's capabilities for managing cloud resources. The commits demonstrate proficiency in Python and interaction with the GCE API, specifically for tasks related to compute instances, subnetworks, and network configurations. They also added test coverage to ensure functionality.
python-libraryapilibcloudpythonhides
maxlip/magic-modules
Oct 2019 - Feb 2020
Automatically generate Google Cloud Platform support for OSS IaaC Projects
Contributions:17 pushes, 3 branches in 4 months
gcpappengineapp-engineossgoogle
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