Maximilian Speicher
Product Design Director at BESTSECRET Group
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolMaximilian Speicher is a Product Design Director based in Barcelona with seven years of cross-disciplinary experience blending product strategy, UX research, and data-driven design. He leads design and ResearchOps at BESTSECRET Group while advising startups and running a consultancy that applies design thinking and conversion rate optimization to real business problems. His background spans academic research—postdoc at the University of Michigan and a PhD—through hands-on roles in data analytics and e-commerce product leadership at C&A and bitstars. He has a pragmatic engineering bent, contributing to open-source tooling such as enhancements to DynamoDB support in the aws-sdk-pandas project, demonstrating fluency with data workflows and developer ecosystems. Colleagues describe him as a strategic thinker who translates complex user and data insights into measurable product outcomes. He combines rigorous research training with practical product delivery, making him equally comfortable steering high-level strategy and shipping tactical improvements.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Science at RWTH AachenPostdoc, Postdoc at University of MichiganPh.D., Ph.D. at Chemnitz University of TechnologyMaster of Science, Master of Science at ETH Zurich
German, English, corporate
Github Skills (8)
amazon-dynamodb10
pandas10
etl10
dynamodb10
aws10
python10
data-engineering10
data-science9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
aws/aws-sdk-pandas
Dec 2020 - Aug 2022
pandas on AWS - Easy integration with Athena, Glue, Redshift, Timestream, Neptune, OpenSearch, QuickSight, Chime, CloudWatchLogs, DynamoDB, EMR, SecretManager, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLServer and S3 (Parquet, CSV, JSON and EXCEL).
Role in this project:
Data Engineer
Data EngineerContributions:24 reviews, 34 commits, 36 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Maximilian made several contributions focused on enhancing Amazon DynamoDB support within the AWS SDK for Pandas library. Their primary task involved the implementation of new functionalities for writing data to DynamoDB, including support for JSON, CSV, and Pandas DataFrames. The changes also involved modifying existing code to integrate the new DynamoDB features into the AWS SDK for Pandas and creating relevant tutorial files.
amazon-sagemaker-notebookcsvpythonsqlserverpolars
maxispeicher/aws-data-wrangler
Dec 2020 - Oct 2024
Pandas on AWS
Contributions:6 PRs, 147 pushes, 69 branches in 3 years 9 months
polarspythonpandasaws
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