Max Staack
Senior Software Developer at Elbgoods GmbH - Internetagentur
Hamburg, Germany
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Top SchoolMax Staack is a Senior Software Developer based in Hamburg with 11 years of experience building web, embedded Linux, and audio-focused systems. He excels at rapid prototyping, API development, server administration, and electronic development, bridging hardware and backend software in production environments. Currently at Elbgoods GmbH, he brings practical full-stack instincts informed by earlier senior roles at freenet AG and a period as an independent developer/sysadmin. An active open-source contributor, Max has enhanced Laravel ecosystem tools—improving PostGIS support and advancing Oracle DB integration—demonstrating attention to database internals and schema-level integrations. Known for pragmatic refactors and feature-driven commits, he combines systems thinking with hands-on coding to turn complex integration challenges into reliable, maintainable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Media Systems, Media Systems at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences
German, English, French
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Github Skills (22)
oracles10
postgresql10
laravel-mix10
databases10
schema-design10
laravel10
php10
oracle10
postgis10
database-design10
db-schema10
database-schema10
schema10
database10
sql9
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
mstaack/laravel-postgis
Mar 2020 - Aug 2022
Postgis extensions for laravel. Aims to make it easy to work with geometries from laravel models.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 6 reviews, 49 commits in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Max primarily contributed to the core functionality of the Laravel Postgis package. Their work included refactoring code, improving namespaces, and implementing new features such as adding a `multipolygonz` column. The commits also show integration with the database and schema building components, including modifying grammar and blueprint classes. These changes aim to enhance the package's capabilities for working with PostGIS extensions within a Laravel environment.
laravel-modelsphpextensionspostgisaims
yajra/laravel-oci8
Jan 2016 - Dec 2017
Oracle DB driver for Laravel via OCI8
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 15 PRs, 50 pushes in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Max primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the Laravel-OCI8 project, focusing on the Oracle database driver. Their work involved refactoring code, removing PDO type hints, and adjusting documentation. They also implemented procedure and function execution features with a focus on improving code style and functionality, by adding features like cursor results and type casting.
laravel-oci8phporacle-dboracledatabase
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