Hi there 馃憢.
I'm Max from 馃嚚馃嚘, proof of concept ninja, author of lambda-perf and pizza lover 馃崟. I now live in Montreal 馃嚚馃嚘.
You may also want to check my personal website: maxday.dev
YouTube channel
I've recently (Oct 2022) launched a Rust Live Coding YouTube channel, check it out 馃憖!
Open source
- Author and maintainer of
- lambda-perf - a daily updated AWS Lambda cold start benchmark across all runtimes
- MDMPC pure js multi-layer pie chart library
- MDRotatingPieChart - (outdated) Objective-C library to draw pie charts
- Core contributor to datadog-agent
- Other contributions to: opentelemetry-rust, aws-xray-sdk-python, quarkus, winston and nodejs-pubsub
Public Speaking
Here is a list of my recent talks:
- 2025-12 馃嚭馃嚫 AWS re:Invent, Las Vegas, NV 路 CNS412 Refactoring Java applications to serverless
- 2025-08 馃嚚馃嚘 CNCF Meetup, Montreal, Canada 路 Short-Lived, Long Traced: Observability Deep Dive in Serverless
- 2025-06 馃嚠馃嚜 CNCF Meetup, Dublin, Ireland 路 Short-Lived, Long Traced: Observability Deep Dive in Serverless
- 2025-05 馃嚭馃嚫 PyConUS, Pittsburgh, PA 路 AWS Lambda <> Open source
- 2025-04 馃嚠馃嚜 Serverless Office Hours, AWS Twitch Channel 路 Java Profiler Extension for AWS Lambda
- 2023-11 馃嚭馃嚫 AWS re:Invent, Las Vegas, NV 路 Benchmarking AWS Lambda cold starts
- 2023-07 馃嚘馃嚬 Rust Meetup, Linz, AT 路 Rust + Serverless = 鉂わ笍
- 2023-07 馃嚭馃嚫 Serverless Office Hours, AWS Twitch Channel 路 Benchmarking Lambda cold starts
- 2023-06 馃嚞馃嚙 Serverless Meetup, London, EN 路 Inception! Use serverless to build a Lambda coldstart benchmark across all runtimes
- 2023-05 馃嚨馃嚤 Devoxx Poland, Krakow 路 Serverless testing is NOT hard
- 2023-03 馃嚚馃嚘 CNCF Meetup @ Google, QC 路 OpenTelemetry, buzz-word or real need?
- 2023-03 馃嚭馃嚫 Duke University, NC 路 Rust for AWS Lambda
- 2023-02 馃嚚馃嚘 Confoo, QC 路 Serverless is NOT hard to test
- 2022-10 馃嚭馃嚫 Dash, NY 路 Building and Monitoring a Serverless App on AWS
- 2022-02 馃嚚馃嚘 Confoo, QC 路 Build a Real-time Pizza Tracker with Serverless
I'm always looking for new opportunities so feel free to contact me if you're looking for a speaker!
Blogging
I like to share posts about performance and serverless: dev.to
Contact
馃摡 Feel free to open a GitHub issue on this repo if you have any questions :)