Maximilian Beck Email & Phone Number

Leipzig, Sn, De

Munich, De

I am responsible for the technical design and development of the SIMARIS Create application. SIMARIS Create is a configuration tool for low voltage distribution boards with the goal to help electrical planners by simplifying the configuration of power distribution boards, automatically generating its documentation, and providing a seamless integration to order the required parts for assembly.My day-to-day work includes:- creating technical concepts for new features that are fast to validate, extensible and easy to change- communicate and discuss technical decisions with the teams (>20 people) working on various areas of the application- coordinating technical dependencies and influencing the solution design of multiple international platform teams (> 50 people total) spanning multiple vendors from Germany and India- defining the technological strategy of the application (coding standards, ways of working, architecture evolutions, and team structures)- defining code quality standards and coaching the team in improving quality - increasing business agility by exploring ways to deliver working software faster to its end users- collaborating with the product and design people to ensure feasibility of new ideas and provide ways to quickly validate them

Leipzig, Saxony, De

- Leading the strategic development of the company in the focus areas "team" and "tech & projects"- Hiring of technical staff- Staffing project teams of WTL- Consulting technical leaders of clients in team setups, architecture, and processes for high quality and high speed software developmentRecent Accomplishments:- Setup of a new provided Service (https://coaching.wtl.de)

Leipzig, Saxony, De

Optimizing lead times and cycle times in software development teams while keeping the stability of the software as well as psychological safety and satisfaction of the team high.Technical leadership of multiple software engineering teams with a size between 2 and 7 other software engineers.Helping software engineers in the team grow their hard and soft skills within the scope of the project to enable self-organization, collaboration, and faster value delivery.Conception of architectural solutions and guiding the implementation using methodologies like domain-driven design, extreme programming, test-driven development, and continuous delivery.Recent outcomes:- Increased production deployment frequency of a team from around every 3 weeks to around 7 times per day- Decreased weekly median cycle times for user stories from around 18 days to around 0,5-3 days

Leipzig, Saxony, De

Conception and implementation of frontend and backend services for several clients operating in domains of hospitality, finance and automotive.

Helping junior developers shaping their skills to become more coordinated and specialised in areas where they requested help.Teaching agile methodologies and clean code practices to help the engineers to self-improve their code and ways of working in complex projects.

Bad Langensalza, Thüringen, De

Bad Langensalza, Thüringen, De

Working in a small IT department of 5 people.Led and mentored apprentices in several projects.Mainly supported the typesetting department by implementing data transformation software (mainly in Perl) to process delivered data (Word or PDF) from authors, polish and convert them for further processing (E-Book generation or print).Implemented and maintained a custom CRM solution (in Java and JavaScript) to support the customer management department with the receiving of order data, invoicing and add transparency about order status.Implemented and maintained a time tracking software (in PHP and JavaScript) to digitalize the time tracking in the typesetting department and automatically report it to cost centers where the information can be used for invoicing.Partially supported the IT administration in maintenance of the company internal IT infrastructure (such as the internal network, Wi-Fi, and server infrastructure).