Maximilian Fürst is a Senior Consultant and full-stack web developer based in the Greater Munich area with 13 years of experience bridging backend systems, frontend UIs and DevOps for telco and enterprise customers. He holds an M.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from TUM (top grades) and combines academic strengths in control theory, signal processing and machine learning with practical product delivery. At TNG he led implementations to satisfy complex regulatory requirements (EECC), built PHP/Java/JavaScript stacks, and contributed to CI/CD and infrastructure improvements in open-source projects like Magma. His OSS work shows a security-minded backend focus—improving license compliance and REST APIs in SW360 and Fossology and adding tests and parsers to harden tooling. Outside of software he has hands-on hardware experience from lighting-system firmware testing and even assessed ML approaches for presence detection, and he referees amateur soccer—demonstrating discipline and team leadership.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Electrical and computer engineering, 1.4 (GPA ~3.6), Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Electrical and computer engineering, 1.4 (GPA ~3.6) at Technical University Munich
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Electrical and computer engineering, 1.0 (GPA 4.0), Master of Science (M.Sc.), Electrical and computer engineering, 1.0 (GPA 4.0) at Technical University of Munich
A levels, 1.4 (GPA ~3.6), A levels, 1.4 (GPA ~3.6) at Hans-Leinberger-Gymnasium Landshut
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 & Security Engineer
Contributions:4 releases, 304 commits, 174 PRs in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Maximilian primarily contributed to the development of the `fossology/fossology` project by adding and integrating a `regexConf-Parser` and `regexConfProvider`. These files appear to be for configuration and handling of regular expressions, likely related to the compliance, license, and copyright aspects of the project, as suggested by the topics. The user then added unit tests for the regex configuration provider. Subsequently, the user integrated the new component into `regTypes` and refactored various calls, indicating active development and maintenance of the copyright and compliance features. The user also modified several files for security reasons.
Contributions:1 review, 39 commits, 36 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Maximilian primarily contributed to the back-end logic, focusing on improving the license handling, testing, and REST API. They added functionality to allow the creation of unchecked licenses and addressed issues with updating licenses. Furthermore, the user fixed issues related to REST endpoints and performed upgrades of the thrift version. The user also worked on the BOM import functionality.
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