11 years at Google with Max Buckley #57

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Our guest today is Max Buckley, Senior Software Engineer at Google. 

From business analyst intern to Senior LLM engineer at Google! Max has been at Google for 11+ years and what a great career he’s had! Max probably knows Google better than anyone else. 

In our conversation, we go through Max's career with over 11 years of experience working at Google. We start with his first internship as a business analyst before he transitioned to software and then data engineering roles. In 2022, Max transitioned again and started building AI projects for Google including an Anti Money Laundering algorithm and internal RAG systems.

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(00:00) Intro

(05:37) Internship to Full-Time Job at Google

(07:20) Career Evolution Across 10+ Teams

(10:30) Learning Through Side Projects

(18:22) Joining Google Cloud AI

(25:58) First AI Project

(31:14) AML AI Project Breakdown

(37:34) Shifting to LLMs

(42:33) Retrieval & Contextual Chunking

(47:28) Limitations of RAG

(50:44) Google’s Evolution Over 10 Years

(54:46) Career Advice