Maxwell Daum
Senior Software Engineer at Genesys
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMaxwell Daum is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years building cloud-native, back-end biased systems using TypeScript/Node.js, Java, and Scala. He specializes in highly available microservices and operationalizing them in AWS, holding both AWS Developer and Solutions Architect certifications. Maxwell has driven cost-optimization and observability initiatives—co-leading cloud cost-management guilds that cut double-digit percentages from organizational bills and implementing dynamic right-sizing for ECS Fargate workloads. He’s experienced across the full lifecycle of services from IaC and CI/CD to on-call incident work, and has a strong track record of creating onboarding and architectural documentation to scale teams. Based in Durham, NC, he holds an MS and BS in Computer Science from UNC Chapel Hill and has repeatedly translated academic rigor into production improvements like a tunable Mongo-to-DynamoDB migration and serverless webhook platforms. Colleagues know him for combining pragmatic engineering with a knack for reducing cloud footprint and operational complexity.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Japanese, English
Github Skills (100)
windows10
javascript10
linux10
neo4j10
js10
nest10
server-side10
graph10
nodejs10
nestjs10
sdk9
scalable9
azure9
security9
gcp9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mdaum/PlagiarismCoupler
Feb 2017 - Dec 2018
Contributions:65 commits, 4 PRs, 56 pushes in 1 year 9 months
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JupiterOne/graph-mimecast
Jan 2022 - Sep 2022
Contributions:17 reviews, 18 PRs, 24 pushes in 8 months
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