Max Juchheim
Software Engineer at Astellas Pharma
Chiyoda, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolMax Juchheim is a software engineer with eight years of professional experience who blends a strong life sciences background with practical full-stack and backend development expertise. He began coding to extend a Python LIMS at Addgene—contributing 20+ merged PRs—and transitioned to building healthcare-focused applications at InterSystems before leading backend architecture for a commercial health app using Go, GORM, and MySQL. He has shipped clinical-facing features such as a unified patient record and a chronological clinical timeline, mentors junior developers, and is comfortable across Python, Ruby, JavaScript, SQL and modern web stacks. Based in Chiyoda, Japan, Max pairs scientific rigor from graduate research with product-minded engineering, able to translate complex domain requirements into maintainable systems. He’s currently at Astellas Pharma and actively seeking opportunities that leverage both his biomedical insight and systems-level software experience.
9 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Web Development Immersive, Web Development Immersive at General AssemblyBS, Biology, BS, Biology at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMS (PhD-ABD), Biological and Biomedical Sciences, MS (PhD-ABD), Biological and Biomedical Sciences at Harvard Medical School
English, Japanese, Spanish
Github Skills (49)
fitbit8
er-diagram7
python7
docker7
entity-relationship-diagram6
health6
data-dictionary6
fitness6
schema5
reverse-engineering5
database-diagrams5
rest5
api5
java5
oauth2-client5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
sonmaximum/sonmaximum.github.io
Feb 2018 - Apr 2025
My code portfolio website
Contributions:18 PRs, 55 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 3 months
javascriptnextjsreacttypescript
sonmaximum/dndutil
Aug 2017 - Nov 2022
Practice programming a D&D utility with Python and Django
Contributions:33 commits, 3 PRs, 36 pushes in 5 years 4 months
djangopython
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