Max Deichmann
Co-Founder & CTO at Langfuse (YC W23)
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolMax Deichmann is a Berlin-based Co-Founder and CTO with a decade of software engineering experience, currently building Langfuse (YC W23) to help developers understand and improve LLM-driven products. He combines hands-on trading-engine and iOS development experience from Trade Republic and mydays with product-minded startup leadership. His background spans technology management and collective intelligence research at institutions including TUM, CDTM and MIT, giving him a rare mix of technical depth and human-centered systems thinking. Max moves fluidly between shipping production systems and shaping developer-facing tooling, evidenced by his continued focus on Langfuse’s platform. Fluent in both engineering and business, he leverages prior roles in investment and asset management to make data-driven product decisions. Known for bridging research insights with practical engineering, he thrives on turning complex AI interactions into observable, debuggable developer experiences.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Management and Technology, Master of Science - MS Management and Technology at Technical University of MunichHonours Degree Technology Management, Honours Degree Technology Management at Center for Digital Technology and Management (CDTM)Visiting Researcher at the Center for Collective Intelligence, Visiting Researcher at the Center for Collective Intelligence at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science - BS International Business, Bachelor of Science - BS International Business at Nanyang Technological University SingaporeBachelor of Science - BS International Business, Bachelor of Science - BS International Business at Maastricht UniversityY Combinator
German, English, attic greek, Latin
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Github Skills (116)
postgresql10
python10
authentication10
nextra10
vector-database10
prompt-engineering10
vertex-ai10
pydantic10
llama-index10
monitoring10
javascript10
chatgpt10
decorators10
llmops10
fine-tuning10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
langfuse/langfuse-python
Jul 2023 - Feb 2025
🪢 Langfuse Python SDK - Instrument your LLM app with decorators or low-level SDK and get detailed tracing/observability. Works with any LLM or framework
Contributions:88 releases, 230 reviews, 496 PRs in 1 year 6 months
decoratorslangfusepydanticpydantic-v2python
langfuse/langfuse
May 2023 - Apr 2025
🪢 Open source LLM engineering platform: LLM Observability, metrics, evals, prompt management, playground, datasets. Integrates with OpenTelemetry, Langchain, OpenAI SDK, LiteLLM, and more. 🍊YC W23
Contributions:125 releases, 665 reviews, 2109 PRs in 1 year 10 months
analyticsautogenevaluationlangchainlarge-language-models
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