Max Heckel

Planned and executed on building on-premises data collectors using Go and docker. Lead a team of 3 engineers to deliver the product. Re-architected and re-designed mission critical systems to be more extendible and maintainable.

Tech Used: Docker, Go, Node, Typescript, React

Built an AI powered research paper summarizer platform and AI research literature review toolkit from scratch. Scaled to $280k ARR and 300k users. Assembled a team of a UX designer and marketer to bring the product to market. Built the application using Laravel, Vue, AWS and OpenAI. Currently a side project that has gotten out of hand.

Building tools to make a/b testing and flag guarding on google assistant awesome. Authored policies for developers on how they change code in google assistant to allow them to do so in the safest, most effective way possible. Built analytics and tracking tools to measure effectiveness of google's experiments in assistant. Helped facilitate change in a system that affects a planet-scale amount of users.

Non-Internal Tech Used: Golang, C++, SQL

Managed 3 teams comprised of 14 engineers total. Created copy and sharing APIs using Golang to perform extremely efficient copies of courseware and other MHE content. Built and architected a new assignments service for tracking student assignments with numerous integrations between external and internal services.

Tech Used: Golang, Angular 7/9, Postgres, PHP, AWS (EC2, ECS, Elasticache, S3, CloudSearch), CircleCI, Docker

Completely re-built and re-architected a custom built ecommerce platform. Built using Laravel, Symfony and Vue.js. Set up an advanced infrastructure on AWS using ECS clusters and multiple EC2 instances.

Tech Used: PHP (Laravel/Symfony), Vue.js, Postgres, AWS, Docker

A company I co-founded out of college with 2 partners. Raised just under half a million dollars in funding. Built an entire secure platform to verify investors income by the companies they are investing in via 506(c) offerings.

Tech Used: PHP, SQL, AWS