Maximilian Leopold
Staff Software Engineer at Shopify
Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolMaximilian Leopold is a Staff Software Engineer based in Baden-Württemberg with nine years of experience building high-performance, highly scalable backend systems that handle millions of requests and large datasets. At Shopify he progressed from Softwareingenieur to Staff Engineer, bringing production-hardened expertise in distributed systems and performance optimization. He enjoys collaborating across teams to design pragmatic, reliable infrastructure and has a track record of shipping at scale in fast-paced environments. Trained in software engineering at Hochschule Heilbronn, he pairs strong engineering fundamentals with a hands-on, iterative approach to solving complex backend challenges. A detail often missed: he transitioned rapidly through roles at Brandwatch into senior positions at Shopify, highlighting both adaptability and consistent impact.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Abitur, Abitur at Gymnasium Korntal-MünchingenBachelor of Applied Science - BASc Software Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc Software Engineering at Hochschule Heilbronn - Hochschule für Technik, Wirtschaft und Informatik
English, German
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Github Skills (51)
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Max-Leopold/fml
Oct 2022 - Nov 2022
A Mod Manager for headless Factorio Servers
Contributions:4 releases, 113 commits, 2 PRs in 1 month
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Max-Leopold/mini-analytics
Aug 2019 - Dec 2024
My Brandwatch Internship Introduction Project
Contributions:76 PRs, 315 pushes, 50 branches in 5 years 5 months
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