Max Wittig
Senior Key Expert at Siemens
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolMax Wittig is a Senior Key Expert and seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building reliable back-end systems and DevOps platforms at Siemens in Zurich. He has been a core member of Siemens' code.siemens.com team since its early days, blending hands-on engineering with platform stewardship to scale internal development workflows. An active open-source contributor, Max improved resilience and API ergonomics in widely used GitLab SDKs (notably contributing rate-limit handling and exponential backoff to Gitbeaker and python-gitlab) and has fixed critical backend and license-management issues in FOSSology. His work consistently focuses on robust API interactions, rate limiting, and practical tooling that prevent production pain, reflecting both deep technical craft and an operator’s mindset.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Media Informatics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Media Informatics at Hochschule Mittweida (FH)High School, High School at Gymnasium St. Augustin
German, English, Spanish, French
Github Skills (31)
rate-limiting10
gitlab-api10
apidoc10
python10
api-design10
back-end-development10
typescript10
php10
api10
typescript-types10
error-handling10
nodejs10
typescripts10
documentation10
testing9
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
python-gitlab/python-gitlab
Apr 2018 - Oct 2022
A python wrapper for the GitLab API.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:23 releases, 88 reviews, 347 commits in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Max primarily contributed to improving the functionality and documentation of the python-gitlab library. They implemented rate-limiting features to comply with GitLab server policies, added documentation for API usage and CLI functionality, and addressed typos. Furthermore, they refactored code, including renaming constants to align with the GitLab documentation. The user also introduced tests for the rate limit and added build information to the documentation.
apigitlab-apigitlab-cipythongitlab-cli
fossology/fossology
Mar 2017 - Oct 2017
FOSSology is an open source license compliance software system and toolkit. As a toolkit you can run license, copyright and export control scans from the command line. As a system, a database and web ui are provided to give you a compliance workflow. License, copyright and export scanners are tools used in the workflow.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:53 commits, 69 PRs, 15 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Max primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the FOSSology project. Their work focused on fixing bugs related to unpacking Java archives and validating email addresses within the user creation process. Additionally, the user made improvements to the search functionality by adding input validation, and fixed an issue related to the license edit list, which suggests work with the license management aspect of the project. They also addressed issues within the advice license feature and database interactions.
spdxcompliancefossologycopyrightcompliance-check
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