Max Schultze
Director Of Data Engineering
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolMax Schultze is a seasoned data engineering leader with 12 years of experience building and scaling data platforms across European tech companies. Currently Director of Data Engineering at HelloFresh after progressing from Associate Director, he previously led and grew data teams at Zalando where he moved from Senior Data Engineer to management roles. Based in Berlin with a Diplom-Informatiker from Humboldt-Universität, Max combines hands-on engineering roots (including long early experience at SAP and university research assistance) with strategic leadership in high-throughput, consumer-facing environments. He is known for translating complex analytics and streaming requirements into reliable, production-ready pipelines and for developing teams that bridge data engineering and product impact. An operator who rose through technical ranks, he brings practical expertise in both implementation and organizational scaling.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom-Informatiker Informatik, Diplom-Informatiker Informatik at Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinAbitur, Abitur at Heinrich-Hertz-Oberschule Berlin
German, English
Github Skills (45)
monitoring10
postgresql-database10
postgresql10
data-infrastructure10
high-availability10
failover10
zookeeper10
etcd10
consul10
haproxy10
docker-image9
cassandra9
kubernetes9
snapshots9
aws9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
slitsche/dotfiles
Jun 2014 - Oct 2018
Contributions:94 commits, 132 pushes in 4 years 4 months
slitsche/sql-training
Jun 2018 - Jun 2026
Contributions:68 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years
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