Maximilian Speicher
Product Engineer at Attio
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolMaximilian Speicher is a Product Design Director based in Barcelona with seven years of cross-disciplinary experience blending product strategy, UX research, and data-driven design. He leads design and ResearchOps at BESTSECRET Group while advising startups and running a consultancy that applies design thinking and conversion rate optimization to real business problems. His background spans academic research—postdoc at the University of Michigan and a PhD—through hands-on roles in data analytics and e-commerce product leadership at C&A and bitstars. He has a pragmatic engineering bent, contributing to open-source tooling such as enhancements to DynamoDB support in the aws-sdk-pandas project, demonstrating fluency with data workflows and developer ecosystems. Colleagues describe him as a strategic thinker who translates complex user and data insights into measurable product outcomes. He combines rigorous research training with practical product delivery, making him equally comfortable steering high-level strategy and shipping tactical improvements.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Mechatronik, Robotik und Automatisierungstechnik, Master of Science - MS, Mechatronik, Robotik und Automatisierungstechnik at Technical University of Munich
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Github Skills (15)
amazon-dynamodb10
etl10
pandas10
dynamodb10
aws10
python10
data-engineering10
data-science9
java6
xml6
android-volley6
android6
android-fragments6
android-jetpack6
navigation-drawer6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
aws/aws-sdk-pandas
Dec 2020 - Aug 2022
pandas on AWS - Easy integration with Athena, Glue, Redshift, Timestream, Neptune, OpenSearch, QuickSight, Chime, CloudWatchLogs, DynamoDB, EMR, SecretManager, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLServer and S3 (Parquet, CSV, JSON and EXCEL).
Role in this project:
Data Engineer
Data EngineerContributions:24 reviews, 34 commits, 36 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Maximilian made several contributions focused on enhancing Amazon DynamoDB support within the AWS SDK for Pandas library. Their primary task involved the implementation of new functionalities for writing data to DynamoDB, including support for JSON, CSV, and Pandas DataFrames. The changes also involved modifying existing code to integrate the new DynamoDB features into the AWS SDK for Pandas and creating relevant tutorial files.
awscsvdynamodbexcelmysql
maxispeicher/aws-data-wrangler
Dec 2020 - Oct 2024
Pandas on AWS
Contributions:6 PRs, 147 pushes, 69 branches in 3 years 9 months
polarspythonpandasaws
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