Max Schubert
Senior Director Of Engineering at Web Wizard Design
Greater Charlottesville Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMax Schubert is a seasoned engineering leader with 17+ years building and operating large-scale, highly available systems and a track record of turning observability and infrastructure needs into reliable production platforms. Currently Senior Director of Engineering at Teachstone, he leads AI, security, data engineering and DevOps, driving responsible generative AI adoption and Snowflake-backed data governance while maintaining strong reliability and cost visibility. He combines hands-on architecture and devops expertise across many languages (Ruby, Python, Go, Perl, Java) with deep open-source roots—contributions include improving Sidekiq configuration validation and long-standing work on Nagios and monitoring tooling. Known as a mentor and coach, he prioritizes sustainable pace, team growth, and practical engineering practices such as Terraform-based IaC and multi-account AWS security boundaries. Unusually for a senior exec, he’s also a published author on enterprise monitoring, reflecting a long-standing focus on observability and operational excellence.
17 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Music Music Industry, Bachelors of Music Music Industry at James Madison UniversityHigh School Diploma Music, High School Diploma Music at Mt. Vernon High School
Spanish
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Github Skills (18)
configuration-management10
sidekiq10
ruby10
error-handling10
command-line-interface9
command-line9
cli9
background-task8
job-search8
jobservice8
background-processing8
background-process8
testing7
mongodb6
activemodel6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
sidekiq/sidekiq
May 2015 - May 2015
Simple, efficient background processing for Ruby
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 5 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Max's contributions centered around improving configuration parameter validation within the Sidekiq codebase. They focused on ensuring the correct data types and ranges for configuration settings, particularly within the `cli.rb` file. The work involved refactoring logic, removing unnecessary parameters, and refining error messages to provide clearer feedback to the user. This included use of ArgumentError, and focus on fail fast principles.
background-jobsrubysidekiqjrubyjobs
perldork/lmf
Dec 2015 - Jan 2019
Contributions:5 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 2 months
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