Maximilian Konzack
Software Engineer at jambit GmbH
Leipzig, Saxony, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolMaximilian Konzack is a software engineer with 14 years of experience blending research-grade rigor and production development, currently building software at jambit in Leipzig. He holds a PhD and has a strong background in visual analytics and movement ecology, having developed novel trajectory-analysis tooling during his doctoral and postdoctoral work. A long-time advocate of free software and programming languages, he has contributed to JRuby—enhancing its IR, compiler passes and debugging visualizations—which reflects deep compiler and JVM internals expertise. He also taught compiler construction and supervised student projects, showing a commitment to mentoring and knowledge transfer. Comfortable moving between academic research and industrial engineering, he brings a pragmatic, language-oriented approach to complex systems. An unusual mix of psychology study and compiler research gives him a nuanced perspective on human-centered tooling and developer ergonomics.
14 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Computer Science, Master's Degree, Computer Science at Freie Universität BerlinBachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at Technische Hochschule Nürnberg Georg Simon OhmMinor, Psychology, Minor, Psychology at Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinPhD, PhD at Eindhoven University of Technology
English, Dutch, German
Github Skills (12)
javas10
debugging10
debug10
compiler-design10
jvm10
jruby10
intermediate-language10
intermediate-code10
java10
ruby10
concurrency9
code-generation9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jruby/jruby
Jul 2013 - Sep 2013
JRuby, an implementation of Ruby on the JVM
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:48 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Maximilian primarily contributed to the JRuby project by adding and modifying code related to the JRuby IR (Intermediate Representation) system. This included implementing an IR visualizer option, defining and enabling debug flags, and refactoring the compiler pass scheduler. The user also made changes to the bytecode compiler and contributed to internal data structures related to the IR, such as adding listeners to the basic blocks. Overall, the contributions focused on improving the internal workings and debugging capabilities of the JRuby compiler.
ruby-languageconcurrencyrubyjvmperformance
chase-lab/biodiv-patterns-course
Jan 2020 - Feb 2020
Contributions:35 commits, 5 pushes in 28 days
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