Maxime David
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.
Montreal 2026 sessions
My Journey into Open Source and How You Can Start Too
English session - Intermediate
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.
Short-Lived, Long Traced: Serverless Observability Deep Dive
English session - Advanced
Serverless computing empowers rapid development and elastic scaling but brings a unique set of observability challenges. How do you trace ephemeral executions, handle cold starts, or monitor performance under strict memory and CPU constraints?
In this talk, we'll explore how OpenTelemetry helps tackle observability in serverless environments. We'll start with a quick refresher on the core concepts, then dive into advanced topics.
