February 25-27, 2026
Montreal, Canada
My Journey into Open Source and How You Can Start Too
Open source has had a major influence on my career: first as a consumer, then as a contributor, later as the author of a popular serverless benchmarking tool, and now as a core maintainer at Amazon, where I lead the AWS Lambda Runtimes team.
As a strong advocate for the open source ecosystem, my goal in this talk is to share the lessons I’ve learned, the pitfalls I’ve faced, and to show you how open source might shape your journey too.
As a strong advocate for the open source ecosystem, my goal in this talk is to share the lessons I’ve learned, the pitfalls I’ve faced, and to show you how open source might shape your journey too.
Maxime David
AWS
Maxime David is a Senior Software Engineer at AWS, working on the AWS Lambda Runtimes team. He's passionate about open source, serverless performance, and observability. A frequent conference speaker, Maxime has shared insights at re:Invent, PyCon US, Devoxx, and CNCF meetups around the world. When he's not deep in code or on stage sharing knowledge, Maxime is on a personal quest to try every banana bread he can find.
