Hey, I’m Max 👋

📍 USA -> Netherlands | 🛠️ Software Engineer @ Picnic

Current Work

I’m a Software Engineer at Picnic in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, working on software that powers large-scale logistics and operations. I focus on backend systems, data-intensive pipelines, and now agent tools and workflows. I’ve worked across inbound logistics, payments, realtime analytics, and warehousing software.

Projects

• 🔍 pi-review — Code review tool for quickly reviewing a PR, branch, unstaged changes, or specific commits

• 🌐 pi-codex-websearch — Tiny pi extension that adds web search via Codex CLI

• 🏠 homeycli — Automate and control your home w/ Homey via CLI

• 🧪 CEV — ClickHouse EXPLAIN Visualizer to make query plans easier to understand

• 📱 CH Pocket — iOS app for querying and monitoring ClickHouse on the go (wip)

• 🐸 PepeList — AI photo generation web app with authentication and subscription billing (discontinued)

• 🍹 Siply — Water tracking app with lightning-fast logging

Legacy Work

• 📸 SmugMugSync — Lightroom plugin for mirroring collections/sets to SmugMug
• 📊 xes — Generate XES files for process mining
• 🧭 PathDB — A path-focused data store
• 🧩 Path-Index — Path indexing experiments/tooling
• 📈 getRich — Web-based interactive systems project
• 🤖 KinectHumanoidSync — Kinect-driven humanoid robot joint sync
• 📡 ArduinoCommunicator — Bridge TCP inputs to Arduino over serial

Writing & Talks

• 📰 How Picnic switched from batch processing to real-time analytics with ClickHouse

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