Maxwell Gurewitz is a Co-Founder and seasoned software engineer with 11 years building scalable, production-grade systems and a background in physics from Reed College. He focuses on distributed systems and developer-facing infrastructure, having driven search, ingestion, and monitoring platforms at companies like OpenTable, Crux, and Braze. At Dittofeed he’s the full-stack force behind an open-source customer engagement platform that automates cross-channel messaging and whose repo foundations he architected and hardened (API, dashboard, migrations, and build fixes). Maxwell combines deep backend experience (datastores, indexing, pipeline monitoring) with frontend and product sensibilities from early startup roles, making him a pragmatic engineer-founder who ships end-to-end solutions. Based in Los Angeles, he brings a rare mix of systems thinking and hands-on execution honed across both startups and larger teams.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Physics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Physics at Reed College
Open-source customer engagement. Automate transactional and marketing messages across email, SMS, mobile push, WhatsApp, Slack, and more 📨
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:530 releases, 148 reviews, 271 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Maxwell's commits primarily focus on establishing the foundation for the application, including setting up the API, dashboard, and backend functionalities. They refactored and fixed the dockerfile for build, and resolved npm dependency issues. They also incorporated new environment variables and a migration script that set up postgress and clickhouse tables.
Dittofeed web SDK, used to send events to Dittofeed from the browser. Dittofeed is an open source customer engagement platform.
Contributions:26 PRs, 35 pushes, 25 branches in 1 year 7 months
customer-engagementjavascriptweb-sdk
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