Max Melnick

maxmelnick@gmail.com / (202) 505-1122 / Washington, DC

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OVERVIEW

I am passionate about making a positive impact by creating technology products with my strong blend of technical and business skills. I have 13+ years of experience in the healthcare, federal public service, and consumer products industries focusing on technology product development, big data/graph analytics, solution architecture, and machine learning.

I also enjoy sports / exercise, travel, cooking/eating, reading, listening to podcasts, and learning new things!

EXPERIENCE

OPTUM DIGITAL (formerly Rally Health)

2020 - present | Sr. Engineering Manager

  • Managed frontend and backend teams in developing an application to help patients recover from surgeries and other conditions
  • Managed backend team responsible for fulfillment of user rewards (e.g., gift cards, HSA fulfillment, premium reduction) upon completion of healthy activities.

DELOITTE CONSULTING LLP

2008 - 2020 | Manager - Technology Services (previous: Summer Scholar, Business Technology Analyst, Consultant, Senior Consultant)

  • Consistent top-performer
  • Engineering lead for interactive network analysis web application. Responsible for a team of 14+ data engineers, data scientists, fullstack engineers, and DevOps engineers
    • Key solution components: entity resolution, distributed graph database, network visualization
    • Tech stack: DataStax Enterprise (Cassandra, Spark, Solr, DSE Graph), Java, Node.js, AngularJS, KeyLines, Jenkins, Istio, Kubernetes, Docker, and AWS
  • Product Manager of web application development team comprised of on-site and remote members, responsible for managing full application life cycle from strategy to execution (e.g., owning roadmap, backlog management, stakeholder coordination, requirements gathering, design/development, usage analytics, infrastructure management, continuous improvement)
  • Experience presenting to client CIOs
  • Developed BI/Analytics solutions with Tableau
  • Led effort to re-architect Oracle APEX web application to support more effective search, performance, and usability using Elasticsearch, Angular, and Node
  • Led SAML single-sign-on implementation for web application
  • Led migration from physical data center infrastructure to private cloud data center infrastructure which saved client over 70% of yearly hosting costs and increased flexibility and scalability of the application
  • Experience leading and supporting large firm initiatives for business development, recruiting, and culture development

METIS

Spring 2016 | Data Scientist

  • 12-week immersive project-based data science bootcamp
  • Developed convolutional neural network in TensorFlow to identify brand logos in social media images
  • Contributed to TensorFlow project on GitHub
  • Used NLP topic modeling techniques to summarize and identify key aspects of Amazon product reviews
  • Developed logistic regression model to predict if an Amazon review will be helpful or not-helpful
  • Used NYC Subway data to recommend optimal locations to hand out event flyers in NYC
  • Developed linear regression model to predict movie Oscar nominations

UNDER ARMOUR

Summer 2007 | Business Intelligence Rookie

  • One of 30 “Rookies” hired for summer 2007 out of 1,200 applicants
  • Worked closely with other departments such as sales, finance, and supply chain to develop SAP Business Warehouse reports that facilitate analysis of performance against key business metrics

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA RECREATIONAL SPORTS DEPARTMENT

2006 - 2009 | Personal Trainer

  • Developed and implemented training programs and health assessments to improve client physical fitness
  • Created online calendar for Fitness Assessment room reservations

SPEAKING EXPERIENCE

EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA

2005 - 2009 | B.S. in Systems Engineering with Highest Distinction

Certifications

  • Databricks Certified Developer - Apache Spark 2.x (2018)
  • AWS Certified Solution Architect - Associate (2018)
  • Certified Scrum Master

TECHNICAL SKILLS

DATA SCIENCE

Machine learning, deep learning, data visualization, NLP, web scraping

PRODUCTS / FRAMEWORKS

DataStax Enterprise (Cassandra, Spark, Solr, DSE Graph), Kubernetes, Istio, TensorFlow, Zeppelin, Jupyter, Kafka, Tableau, Docker, AWS, Jenkins, Git, JIRA, Node.js, AngularJS, Elasticsearch, Selenium, Oracle 11g database, Piwik, Shibboleth, Informatica

DEVELOPMENT LANGUAGES

SQL, Python, Scala, Java, Bash scripting, JavaScript

BUSINESS SKILLS

Leadership, Project Management, Agile development, Enterprise Architecture, Analytics, Lean Startup, business development, recruiting, culture development