Max Wilfinger
Team Lead Electric Powertrain Engineering at BMW Group
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolMax Wilfinger is a team lead in electric powertrain engineering with six years of hands-on experience driving transmission and e-drive programs at BMW Group and upstream roles across Porsche, Magna and Mercedes-AMG. He blends product ownership, agile cross-functional leadership and supplier industrialization to take complex automotive systems from prototype to SOP while balancing performance, weight, cost and quality targets. A founder and former CEO, he pairs entrepreneurial instinct with data-driven process optimization—achieving measurable wins like 15% scrap reduction and speeding quoting and shift actuation through design and workflow changes. Technically curious and largely self-taught in programming and AI/product analytics, he applies predictive analytics and Industry 4.0 thinking to engineering and tool development for large user bases. Notably, he conceived and led a cross-departmental IT tool for BMW prototype conversions used by over 1,600 users and holds advanced nanodegrees in AI and predictive analytics. Based in Munich, he is passionate about functional product design, emerging technologies and turning ambitious concepts into production-ready solutions.
6 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Nanodegree AI Programming with Python, Nanodegree AI Programming with Python at UdacityMaster of Science (Dipl.-Ing. / MSc) Production Science and Management, Master of Science (Dipl.-Ing. / MSc) Production Science and Management at Technische Universität Graz
German, English, French
Github Skills (128)
messaging10
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freecad10
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eclipse10
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
maxwxyz/FreeCAD
Nov 2023 - Mar 2025
This is the official source code of FreeCAD, a free and opensource multiplatform 3D parametric modeler.
Contributions:4 PRs, 246 pushes, 177 branches in 1 year 4 months
maxwxyz/FPA
Feb 2024 - Dec 2024
The FreeCAD Project Association
Contributions:86 pushes, 36 branches in 10 months
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