Summary
Max Prehl is a Site Reliability Engineer with eight years of hands-on experience spanning systems administration, software engineering, and project management, currently keeping infrastructure and uptime stable for a K–12 SaaS serving tens of thousands of daily users and parents. He specializes in DevOps/GitOps, IaC, containerization, PKI, and Linux administration, and is comfortable moving between the command line and codebases in Bash, Perl, Make, Java, and legacy ColdFusion. Max has a track record of modernizing and automating orphaned systems—recovering 100+ Linux VMs and establishing code ownership and standards across legacy repositories—while improving automation for PKI and container builds. A Drexel CS graduate with concentrations in systems, security, and HCI, he blends front-end experience (React, Angular, Django) with deep operational reliability work, making him adept at translating product needs into auditable, production-ready infrastructure.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Drexel University