Max NewcomerSenior Software Engineer
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Senior Software Engineer focused on building scalable, efficient, and reactive systems while leveraging the right tools and architecture to fit the team's needs and ensure long-term maintainability.
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May 2023 – Present
Denari
Senior Software Engineer — Data Team Lead
  • Architected and delivered a mission-critical full-stack data platform and standardized infrastructure foundations across multiple concurrent projects, coordinating cross-functional teams and external contractors to ship on time, within budget, and with enterprise-grade scalability and security.
  • Co-led Denari's SOC 2 Type II certification by partnering with auditors and security, defining controls, remediating gaps and embedding continuous compliance across engineering workflows.
  • Designed and productionized a multi-modal AI RAG ingest pipeline using embeddings and vector databases, cutting inference latency by 50% and serving tens of thousands of vector queries per month.
  • Migrated a 2,500-doc-per-day ingestion workflow to an auto-scaling queue-consumer architecture with zero downtime, achieving a 6.5x throughput improvement and 99.99% availability.
  • Pioneered a centralized observability program that integrates logging, distributed tracing and profiling across frontend, backend and ML services for end-to-end visibility.
  • Slashed AI API costs 50x (~$10k/mo) via model re-tuning, request batching, and cache primitives.
  • Recruited, onboarded and mentored software engineers, cultivating a cohesive, high-performing team and driving continuous professional growth.
January 2023 – May 2023
BeHelpful
Software Engineer (Contractor, Full-Time)
  • Advised a growing consumer brand on SEO strategy, harnessing insights from SEMrush and Google Search Console to build predictive keyword-optimization models, driving a 10,000-pageview increase in 2.5 months.
  • Engineered data-driven algorithms to calculate Total Addressable Market (TAM) and Serviceable Available Market (SAM) by integrating SEO metrics with Google Traffic analytics; partnered with clients to translate these findings into targeted vertical-market growth strategies.
May 2019 – January 2023
United States Geological Survey (USGS)
Junior Software Engineer (Student Team Leader, Part-Time)
  • Developed software (NWTOPT publication) used by hydrologists worldwide to run distributed Tree-Structured Parzen Estimator hyperparameter optimization for MODFLOW-NWT, reducing average model solve times by ~80% and saving the USGS and the Italian USGS-equivalent agency months of compute time.
  • Mentored a junior developer—delegating tasks, tracking milestones against the team roadmap, and ensuring on-time, high-quality delivery—while fostering collaborative problem-solving and productivity gains.
  • Trained Generative Adversarial Networks to produce physically realistic hydrogeological conductivity maps from sparse observational data and hydrologist-informed distribution hypotheses.

Familiar Languages

Go
Rust
Python
C/C++
TS
SQL
R
Java

Other Skills

AWS
PostgreSQL
MySQL
Networking
Docker
CloudFormation
Azure Cloud
Git
Lambda Stack
Weights & Biases
MLFlow
AWS
ECS
Fargate
Lambda
SNS
SQS
Kinesis
MSK
Auth Flows
Qdrant
Scikit
TensorFlow
Pytorch
Langchain
DynamoDB
SQLite
Datadog
k8s
Block Storage