Maximilian Güntner
Senior Software Engineer at Freelance
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolMaximilian Güntner is a pragmatic senior software engineer based in Munich with 15 years of experience building robust backends, infrastructure and full-stack features across startups and product teams. He blends systems-level expertise—illustrated by low-level contributions to projects like ethersex—with user-focused UI work such as dive-profile enhancements in the Subsurface client. Comfortable across Rust, Ruby and modern web stacks, he consistently ships production-ready services and microservices while navigating domain complexity in areas like energy and mobility. An outspoken fast learner, he pairs hands-on implementation with systems thinking informed by formal studies in computer science and philosophy of science, making him effective at turning ambiguous requirements into reliable, maintainable systems.
15 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Ludwig Maximilian University of MunichPhilosophy of Science and Technology, Philosophy of Science and Technology at Technical University MunichBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Fachhochschule Kempten - Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft
Github Skills (20)
qt10
c-programming10
c1110
ui-design10
c1710
uid10
front-end-development10
sys10
embedded10
avr8
i2c8
microcontroller8
controller8
memory-management7
optimisation7
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
ethersex/ethersex
Apr 2011 - Feb 2016
etherrape port towards IPv6
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:273 commits, 8 PRs, 5 comments in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Maximilian primarily contributed to the low-level system code of the project, addressing memory buffer overflows in the `stella_ecmd.c` file and adding configurations for input and output universes in the `artnet.c` file. The user also worked on the DMX channel input functionality within the `stella.c` file and started development of a new service related to the system's core functionality. This individual made changes to the underlying hardware interaction to allow the system to work more properly, including implementing more efficient multi-channel commands.
ipv6routeros
subsurface/subsurface
Jun 2012 - Nov 2013
This is the official upstream of the Subsurface divelog program
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:24 commits, 2 comments, 2 issues in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Maximilian primarily contributed to the UI of the Subsurface divelog program. Their work involved implementing features related to dive profile visualization, specifically focusing on apnea dives and adding a zoom feature to enhance the user experience. This included modifying the scaling of the depth profile, adding a ruler with gas information, and improving the display of time markers for short dives. Furthermore, the user made several changes to the UI layout and functionality of the application.
pythonsubsurfaceupstream
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