Max Tursi
Assistant General Manager at Amazing Escape Room
North Wales, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolMax Tursi is a software developer with 11 years of experience who combines hands-on engineering with operational leadership from roles ranging from enterprise releases at Hewlett Packard Enterprise to managing a customer-facing escape room. He has driven release processes, simplified build and test infrastructure, and contributed meaningful backend work to the Chapel parallel programming language—refactoring core path-manipulation APIs and adding tests to improve consistency for downstream users. Comfortable in distributed teams and customer-facing environments, he pairs technical rigor with practical product sensibilities informed by game design training from RIT. Max is passionate about games and teaching, with a history of game development and instructing youth in programming and electronics, which informs his user-focused approach to software. Based in North Wales, PA, he’s seeking to translate his release engineering and backend experience into impactful product work at a software firm.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Game Design and Development, 3.3/4.0, BS, Game Design and Development, 3.3/4.0 at Rochester Institute of TechnologyHigh School, High School, 4.0/4.0, High School, High School, 4.0/4.0 at Lansdale Catholic High School
English
Github Skills (5)
compiler10
path-manipulation10
programming-language10
chapel10
compiler-compiler10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
chapel-lang/chapel
Jan 2021 - Mar 2022
a Productive Parallel Programming Language
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 39 reviews, 112 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Max made significant contributions to the Chapel programming language's standard modules, specifically related to file path manipulation. They refactored existing path-related functions, changing the parameter names to be consistent and deprecated older versions, as well as added deprecation warnings to alert the users of the new parameter names. The user's changes included modifications to `absPath`, `basename`, `dirname`, `isAbsPath`, `normPath`, `relPath`, and `splitPath` functions, alongside adding unit tests for formal name changes and the deprecation of arguments.
parallellanguage-designproductivecompilerparallel-programming
Maxrimus/chapel
Jan 2021 - Mar 2022
a Productive Parallel Programming Language
Contributions:81 PRs, 136 pushes, 112 branches in 1 year 1 month
parallellanguage-designproductivecompilerparallel-programming
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