Hi there 👋.

I'm Max from 🇨🇦, proof of concept ninja, author of lambda-perf and pizza lover 🍕. I now live in Montreal 🇨🇦.

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 👀!

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- MDRotatingPieChart - (outdated) Objective-C library to draw pie charts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

Here is a list of my recent talks:

2025-12 🇺🇸 AWS re:Invent, Las Vegas, NV · CNS412 Refactoring Java applications to serverless
2025-08 🇨🇦 CNCF Meetup, Montreal, Canada · Short-Lived, Long Traced: Observability Deep Dive in Serverless
2025-06 🇮🇪 CNCF Meetup, Dublin, Ireland · Short-Lived, Long Traced: Observability Deep Dive in Serverless
2025-05 🇺🇸 PyConUS, Pittsburgh, PA · AWS Lambda <> Open source
2025-04 🇮🇪 Serverless Office Hours, AWS Twitch Channel · Java Profiler Extension for AWS Lambda
2023-11 🇺🇸 AWS re:Invent, Las Vegas, NV · Benchmarking AWS Lambda cold starts
2023-07 🇦🇹 Rust Meetup, Linz, AT · Rust + Serverless = ❤️
2023-07 🇺🇸 Serverless Office Hours, AWS Twitch Channel · Benchmarking Lambda cold starts
2023-06 🇬🇧 Serverless Meetup, London, EN · Inception! Use serverless to build a Lambda coldstart benchmark across all runtimes
2023-05 🇵🇱 Devoxx Poland, Krakow · Serverless testing is NOT hard
2023-03 🇨🇦 CNCF Meetup @ Google, QC · OpenTelemetry, buzz-word or real need?
2023-03 🇺🇸 Duke University, NC · Rust for AWS Lambda
2023-02 🇨🇦 Confoo, QC · Serverless is NOT hard to test
2022-10 🇺🇸 Dash, NY · Building and Monitoring a Serverless App on AWS
2022-02 🇨🇦 Confoo, QC · 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!

I like to share posts about performance and serverless: dev.to

📩 Feel free to open a GitHub issue on this repo if you have any questions :)