Max de Lavenne has 25 years of software engineering experience. He has worked with most databases, built networked applications and cloud infrastructures, integrated many APIs, and has remained on the cutting edge of technologies and SQL enterprise design patterns. De Lavenne holds a degree from a software and electronics engineering college in Paris, France, and an MBA from Pepperdine University. He has been a software engineer since 1995 in multiple languages: C# (20 years active), Java (10 years active), C/C++ (5 years active), PHP (15 years active), Python (10 years active), and now programs primarily in C#/PHP, TypeScript, ASP.NET and React/Angular along with his team of software engineers. De Lavenne teaches software engineering and database management at Linfield University.