Summary
Max Pietsch is a pragmatic software engineer with 11 years of industry experience and over five years in professional engineering roles, currently building internal travel tooling at Google from Austin, Texas. He has a strong backend focus—designing scalable metric aggregation algorithms at Amazon, owning Java libraries, and improving download throughput by 300% with a multithreaded design at General Motors. Comfortable across services, observability, and automation, he also built remote door-unlocking web services, canary tests, dashboards, and installer automation using Python. His early work blends research-adjacent projects and practical web tooling, including a LAMP-based pharma database and a published algorithm for drug-drug interaction analysis, signaling an ability to turn research into production-ready systems.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at University of South Florida
English