Maxwell Schrader - Senior Software Engineer

Maxwell Schrader

Senior Software Engineer - Algorithms at Cavnue

Louisville, Colorado, United States

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Maxwell Schrader is a Senior Software Engineer specializing in numerical algorithms and traffic systems, blending a PhD in Mechanical Engineering with six years of applied research and industry experience. He has driven production-grade contributions to the widely used Eclipse SUMO traffic simulator—adding multiprocessing route sampling and emissions-aware vehicle distributions—and led DOE-collaborative work to build a NEMA-style traffic signal controller in C++. Maxwell designs parallel Monte Carlo frameworks (Ray/Python), sensor-fusion stacks in Rust/Python, and RL integrations for intelligent traffic control, demonstrating fluency across systems, simulation, and control. His work uniquely spans from low-level real-time vehicle tracking with Kalman filters to high-level stochastic digital twins for corridor-scale fuel-efficiency optimization. Based in Louisville, Colorado, he combines open-source impact with startup and consulting experience, and is comfortable shipping both research prototypes and production algorithmic systems.

6 years of coding experience

10 years of employment as a software developer

Certificate of Completion, German Language and Literature, 4.0 GPA, Certificate of Completion, German Language and Literature, 4.0 GPA at Die Deutsche Sommerschule von New Mexico

Waterloo Community High School

Automotive Engineering, Junior, Automotive Engineering, Junior at Hochschule Esslingen - University of Applied Sciences

Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mechanical Engineering, 4.0/4.0, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mechanical Engineering, 4.0/4.0 at The University of Alabama

English, German

Github Skills (10)

multiprocessing10

multi-process10

python-multiprocessing10

traffic-simulation10

python10

refactoring8

data-structure7

data-structures7

algorithm7

algorithms7

Programming languages (7)

TypeScriptC++RustTeXJavaScriptJupyter NotebookPython

Github contributions (5)

eclipse-sumo/sumo

Jan 2020 - Jan 2025

Eclipse SUMO is an open source, highly portable, microscopic and continuous traffic simulation package designed to handle large networks. It allows for intermodal simulation including pedestrians and comes with a large set of tools for scenario creation.

Role in this project:

Back-end Developer

Contributions:43 PRs, 131 comments, 38 issues in 5 years 1 month

Contributions summary:Maxwell primarily contributed to the `routeSampler.py` and `createVehTypeDistribution.py` tools within the SUMO traffic simulation package. Their work included adding multiprocessing capabilities to `routeSampler.py` and modifying `createVehTypeDistribution.py` to handle numeric characters in emission classes. They also implemented new vehicle type distributions, refactored existing code, and addressed specific issues related to the route distribution tag.

intermodalpedestriansscenariocontinuousmicroscopic

mschrader15/SASUMO

Jul 2021 - Aug 2022

Supports two level Monte-Carlo Simulation and Sensitivity Analysis of SUMO

Contributions:125 commits, 4 PRs, 88 pushes in 1 year 1 month

sensitivity-analysissimulationsumomonte-carlomonte-carlo-simulation

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