Max Sumrall

Max Sumrall

Picnic Technologies
Max Sumrall is a Lead Software Engineer at Picnic, where he's spent over eight years building core systems. From the warehouse management system built from scratch, to a multi-country payments platform, to the real-time analytics infrastructure powering 30+ fulfillment centers. He currently leads Inbound Systems, building the just-in-time supply chain that decides what Picnic buys from suppliers each day. Before Picnic, he worked on distributed consensus and storage internals at Neo4j. He got his start programming humanoid robots for RoboCup competitions, holds a BSc from George Mason University and an MSc in Computer Science from TU Eindhoven.
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Max Sumrall
Max Sumrall
Picnic Technologies

pi and the Spec Paradox: What AI Agents Actually Need From You

The talk explores how working with AI coding agents mirrors good engineering practice—removing ambiguity, defining constraints, and iterating quickly. Through a live demo using the open‑source agent h...
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