Max Williams
Systems Engineer at Delivery Hero
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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RockstarMax Williams is a Principal Systems Engineer based in Berlin with a decade of experience building and operating cloud-native delivery platforms. At Delivery Hero he focuses on CI/CD, Helm-based deployments and reliability engineering, contributing to the company's helm-charts repository to automate tests, docs and chart lifecycles. His open-source work on Locust highlights a practical emphasis on performance testing and containerized tooling, including CPU-usage improvements and dynamic user ramping for realistic load scenarios. Blending hands-on DevOps craft with systems thinking, he’s the sort of engineer who tightens deployment pipelines while surfacing subtle runtime issues before they hit production.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (25)
kubernetes10
github-ci10
docker10
performance-monitor10
load-generator10
performance-analytics10
python10
loadtest10
bash10
dockers10
cicd10
performance-measurement10
performance-analysis10
helm10
kubernetes-pods10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
deliveryhero/helm-charts
Aug 2020 - Dec 2022
Helm Charts ⛵ @ Delivery Hero ⭐
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:423 reviews, 102 commits, 392 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Max primarily contributed to improving the CI/CD pipeline and ensuring the proper functioning of the Helm charts. This included setting up automated tests using helm-conftest, enhancing the helm-docs CI script for generating and validating README.md files, and fixing issues related to chart deployments and configurations. The user also added new charts to the repository, demonstrating an understanding of the project's overall structure and deployment processes.
chartscharthelmhelm-charthelm-charts
locustio/locust
Jan 2021 - May 2022
Write scalable load tests in plain Python 🚗💨
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Performance Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Performance EngineerContributions:7 reviews, 5 commits, 21 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Max primarily contributed to the project by enhancing the Docker configuration and documentation for running Locust tests. They also refactored code related to CPU usage warnings, and updated timing functions. Furthermore, the user implemented and tested features to allow the ramping up and down of users during tests. These changes reflect a focus on improving the testing process, optimizing performance, and refining the user experience with Locust.
scalablestress-testingbenchmarkingpythonload-testing
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