Maximilian Christ
Lead Data Scientist
Dusseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Summary
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RockstarMaximilian Christ is a Lead Data Scientist based in Düsseldorf with a decade of experience applying machine learning and engineering to industrial digitalization, currently transforming 150 years of metallurgical expertise at SMS digital into AI-enabled services. He combines hands-on software development—ranging from Android mobile work on OBD-II trip logging to backend contributions for the tsfresh time-series feature extraction library—with leadership in productionizing analytics for the steel industry. His open-source work shows both breadth and depth: fixing subtle TSFRESH bugs, adding feature calculators and Python 3 support, and implementing robust CSV logging for embedded telemetry. Pragmatic and detail-oriented, he bridges domain experts and data teams to turn complex plant data into actionable, auditable pipelines.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (16)
obd-ii10
pandas10
javas10
python10
feature-extraction10
android10
java10
data-analysis9
csv9
machine-learning9
unit-testing9
file-processing8
file-handling8
documentation8
fileio8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
blue-yonder/tsfresh
Oct 2016 - Mar 2021
Automatic extraction of relevant features from time series:
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 reviews, 185 commits, 319 PRs in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Maximilian primarily focused on improving the *TSFRESH* library's functionality. Their contributions included fixing issues, adding Python 3 support, and refactoring documentation. Specifically, the user addressed bugs related to feature naming, function calculations, and index issues. Moreover, they added new feature calculators, improved existing ones, and adapted the code to new API versions, demonstrating a deep understanding of the project's codebase and purpose.
dtwextractionpythonfeature-extractiondata-science
pires/android-obd-reader
Jul 2015 - Jul 2015
Android OBD-II Reader application that uses pure OBD-II PID's Java API.
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 6 comments in 4 days
Contributions summary:Maximilian focused on enhancing the Android OBD-II reader application. They implemented features to enable full trip logging to CSV files, including new configuration options for enabling and specifying the logging directory. The user also added a new class, `LogCSVWriter`, to handle writing OBD data to CSV files. Further modifications included parsing config variables and adding the `toString` method to the `ObdReading` class, and integrated the CSV writer into the main activity.
apiandroidobd-iireaderjava-api
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