Maxim Piessen
CTO, Co-founder at Le Wagon
Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
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Top SchoolMaxim Piessen is a technology leader and entrepreneur with 8 years of experience building AI-driven products and startups, currently serving as CTO and co-founder at Credix. He blends a physics-rooted analytical background and an advanced master's in AI with hands-on product leadership—most notably shaping VELMA, a hyper-personalization platform for wealth management. Maxim has scaled and led technical teams, found product-market fit quickly, and repeatedly bridges research and delivery by scoping and implementing AI solutions for financial clients. He’s also an experienced educator—teaching data science and corporate analytics bootcamps—and brings a knack for clear public speaking and knowledge transfer. A former founder of a niche photo-sharing startup and a longtime macro-photography lecturer, he pairs entrepreneurial grit and marketing experience with deep technical curiosity in blockchain, crypto, and machine learning. Based in Antwerp, he thrives at the intersection of business appetite and a can-do engineering mindset.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Physics minor in business, Master's degree Physics minor in business at University of AntwerpAdvanced master Artificial intelligence and big data analytics, Advanced master Artificial intelligence and big data analytics at KU LeuvenFull stack developer Webdevelopment, Full stack developer Webdevelopment at Le Wagon1st semester master's degree Physics, 1st semester master's degree Physics at Stellenbosch UniversityScience mathematics (8u), Science mathematics (8u) at Moretus Ekeren
Dutch, English, German, French, Afrikaans
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Github Skills (20)
networkx10
community-detection10
plugin10
network-analysis9
sequel9
pagination9
graph-visualization9
sinatra9
ruby-application9
ruby7
rails7
solana6
cloudflare-workers6
cloudflare6
frontend5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
MaximPiessen/photrea
Nov 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:99 PRs, 123 pushes, 38 branches in 24 days
credix-finance/credix-website
Nov 2021 - Feb 2025
Contributions:42 PRs, 147 pushes, 29 branches in 3 years 3 months
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