Maximilian Held
Software Engineer at Max Held Social Data Science
Bad Sachsa, Lower Saxony, Germany
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Top SchoolMaximilian Held is a software engineer and R specialist with 12 years of experience building reproducible, maintainable full-stack data products across academia, industry and open source. He brings software development best practices to data science—defensive programming, TDD, CI/CD and source control—to deliver ETL pipelines, dashboards and data DevOps solutions that scale. Though trained in social sciences (PhD), he has engineered automation for R workflows including contributing technical documentation to the widely used pkgdown project and developing ghactions to bring GitHub Actions to R. He thrives on solving real user problems by breaking work into small, well-tested modules and is comfortable saying no to preserve focus and quality. Based in Lower Saxony, Germany, he balances research rigor with pragmatic engineering, often turning complex bibliometric and behavioral-data challenges into operational tooling.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Social Sciences, Social Sciences at University of California, IrvineBachelor of Arts - BA, SOCIAL SCIENCES, 1,5, Bachelor of Arts - BA, SOCIAL SCIENCES, 1,5 at Jacobs University BremenPublic Policy, Public Policy at Hertie School of GovernanceDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Social Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Social Sciences at Universität Bremen
English, German
Stackoverflow
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25answers
63questions
github
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Github Skills (19)
wordpress-themes10
r10
ui-theme10
jekyll10
html10
documentation10
githubactions9
github9
css9
github-pages9
yaml7
pandoc6
bookdown6
latex6
devops6
Programming languages (29)
Github contributions (5)
r-lib/pkgdown
Jun 2018 - Feb 2021
Generate static html documentation for an R package
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:8 commits, 9 PRs, 28 comments in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Maximilian primarily contributed to improving and expanding the documentation of the `pkgdown` R package. Their work included documenting the use of `_site.yml` for articles, clarifying how the `has_concept()` function relates to `@family` tags in roxygen2, and fixing YAML nesting issues in documentation examples. Furthermore, the user addressed a typo and made corrections in the documentation, enhancing its clarity and usability.
rr-packagestatic-htmldocumentation-tool
maxheld83/biblids
Dec 2020 - Apr 2022
Contributions:146 commits, 156 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 5 months
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