Summary
Maximilian Schmidt is a Senior Software Engineer with six years of experience specializing in distributed systems and backend development, currently building infrastructure at Bloomberg in New York. His career blends insurance and finance domain expertise from roles at PwC, AXA and mailo with hands-on engineering at OBI Smart Technologies, giving him a rare combination of product-side domain knowledge and scalable system design. He excels at translating complex business rules into reliable, production-grade services and has moved between consulting and in-house engineering roles, which sharpens his ability to communicate technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders. Trained in Insurance and Actuarial Sciences (M.Sc.), he brings analytical rigor to software problems and a practical focus on observability and resilience that often goes unnoticed behind polished APIs.
6 years of coding experience