{"id":128,"date":"2020-01-21T18:46:56","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T18:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmaresch.servehttp.com\/?page_id=128"},"modified":"2026-06-21T14:58:57","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T14:58:57","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mmaresch.com\/index.php\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Feel free to contact me if you have further questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>Personal information<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>Name<\/td><td>Maresch Maximilian<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Date of birth<\/td><td>24.01.2000<br><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Phone number<\/td><td> +43 699 11330595 <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Email address<\/td><td>maxi.maresch@gmail.com<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Nationality<\/td><td>Austria<br><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Languages<\/td><td>German (native), English (C1)<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2>Professional Career<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Since February 2025: <strong>Software Engineer, Machine Learning<\/strong> at <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\">Microsoft<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>AI research team<\/strong>, bridging the gap between research and engineering for a Copilot product, developing the distributed systems required to <strong>serve<\/strong> in-house built Large Language Models (LLMs) and Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) <strong>models globally<\/strong><\/li><li>Designed and implemented a low-latency serving architecture and the production integration protocol, demonstrating a &gt;8x reduction in Time-to-First-Token (TTFT) for real-time inference workloads by leveraging unidirectional streaming and Small Language Models (SLMs)<\/li><li>Enhanced distributed data processing pipelines to handle a &gt;2x increase in volume by redesigning event processing patterns, data caching, and partitioning strategies<\/li><li>Profiled and optimized research evaluation libraries to achieve a &gt;100x reduction in metric computation time by building custom NLP algorithms designed for low-overhead, in-process usage<\/li><li>Led the development of a Kubernetes-based development and testing platform from scratch, mirroring the production environment to enable researchers to validate model serving changes prior to deployment<\/li><li>Engineered automated self-healing mechanisms within the serving architecture to protect production environments from regional outages, ensuring high availability of the model inference system<\/li><li>Contributed to scalable cloud infrastructure spanning 7 countries across 2 continents, implementing secure access controls, data isolation, failover handling, and efficient GPU utilization for inference to make models available to global production traffic<\/li><li>Developed core components of the AI monitoring and A\/B testing framework used to track and evaluate model inference metrics, quality metrics, and token generation in production<\/li><li>Led the collaboration with a key external partner to establish a cross-organizational data pipeline, involving 5 teams and &gt;10 researchers, engineers, and managers over 1 year, enabling research teams to leverage ground-truth data to improve model accuracy<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>August 2021 &#8211; January 2025: <strong>Software Engineer<\/strong> for <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/george-labs.com\">George<\/a><\/strong> at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/erstedigital.com\">Erste&nbsp;Digital<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Delivery team<\/strong>, built REST APIs and integrations powering George and George Business (online banking), running in 6 countries and serving <strong>10 million users<\/strong> and thousands of businesses<\/li><li>Built core list, search, sort and filter APIs for accounts, overdrafts, loans and cards, along with APIs for customization, bank guarantee document management and signing<\/li><li>Built low-latency message processing system for accounts and balances, enabling real-time data updates<\/li><li>Led the George Streams initiative for event-driven architecture from idea to deployment, involving &gt;5 teams and &gt;15 backend engineers\/architects over 1 year, extending critical legacy systems processing millions of transactions every month, pitching the topic to various stakeholders in George<\/li><li>Led the development on data-push architecture, enabling large businesses to use George Business<\/li><li>Introduced reusable CD infrastructure for George backend services, adopted by the platform department<\/li><li>Consulted the head of platform architecture on designs for financial health features (C-1 level management)<\/li><li>Reduced accounts-related infrastructure costs by 50%<\/li><li>Migrated critical online banking functionality from monolithic applications to microservices<\/li><li>Conducted hundreds of code reviews, taught technical topics to engineers, interviewed dozens of candidates<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>August 2020 &#8211; July 2021: <strong>Software Engineer<\/strong> at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/compass.at\">Compass-Datenbank<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Data team<\/strong>, developed REST APIs &amp; batch processing systems, modernized legacy software<\/li><li>Built CRUD API for association data with &gt;30 endpoints and took it to production<\/li><li>Built batch import jobs for automatic integration of up-to-date court data into all Compass products<\/li><li>Operated dozens of batch processing systems and managed production incidents<\/li><li>Built client libraries for 3rd party services providing translations and legal documents<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>August 2019 &#8211; February 2020: Cyber Soldier at the Austrian Armed Forces<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>IT security and support<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>July 2015, 2016, 2017: Summer internships in IT sector<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>Education<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>January 2024 &#8211; June 2026: <strong>Vienna University of Technology<\/strong> \u2013 Master&#8217;s Programme <strong>Software Engineering &amp; Internet Computing<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>March 2020 &#8211; December 2023: <strong>Vienna University of Technology<\/strong> &#8211; Bachelor&#8217;s Programme <strong>Software &amp; Information Engineering<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>GPA: 1.2<\/li><li>Bachelor thesis and <a href=\"https:\/\/dsg.tuwien.ac.at\/team\/snastic\/publications\/ICFEC__Maresch_VATE_Object_Detection.pdf\">paper<\/a>: VATE<ul><li>Edge-Cloud System for Object Detection in Real-Time Video Streams<\/li><li>Improved the state of the art given by a Microsoft Research System by up to 27.5%<\/li><li>Publication: IEEE International Conference on Fog and Edge Computing (<a href=\"https:\/\/icfec2024.ontariotechu.ca\/\">ICFEC 2024<\/a>)<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>September 2014 &#8211; June 2019: <strong>Higher Technical College<\/strong> Krems &#8211; Information Technology Department<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>GPA: 1.4<\/li><li>Diploma thesis: <strong>Key generation from measurements of a radio communication <\/strong><ul><li>Implementation of a <strong>post-quantum Diffie-Hellman<\/strong> key exchange <strong>alternative <\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Won prize<\/strong> at the &#8220;Security Competition&#8221; 2019  by the Austrian Security Hub<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2>Skills<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Machine Learning\/Data engineering:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Python:<\/strong> PyTorch, NumPy, Pandas, FastAPI, aiohttp<\/li><li>Spark, Parquet, Delta Lake, Lakehouse architecture<\/li><li>LLMs, Prompt engineering, CNNs, Transformers<\/li><li>ONNX, TensorRT, OpenCV<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Software engineering:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Java, Kotlin:<\/strong> Spring ecosystem, JPA\/Hibernate, Liquibase, Maven, Gradle<\/li><li>Kafka, PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch, Redis<\/li><li>Git, Avro, Protobuf<\/li><li>Object-oriented and functional programming, clean code, unit and integration testing<\/li><li>Conducting code reviews, CI\/CD, agile development<\/li><li>AI coding (GitHub Copilot)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Software architecture: <\/strong>API-Design, Cloud-native microservices, Event-driven architecture<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Cloud\/DevOps: <\/strong>Azure, AWS (EKS, EC2, RDS), Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, Kibana, Grafana<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Presenting <\/strong>technical topics to senior engineers, upper management and large audiences (&gt;150 people)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>Further qualifications<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>41<\/strong> completed <strong>Pluralsight courses<\/strong>*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AWS Certified <strong>Solutions Architect<\/strong> &#8211; Associate<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cambridge CAE &#8211; <strong>C1 English<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>IPMA <strong>Level D<\/strong> certification &#8211; <strong>Project management<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First aid course<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Driving license (B),  Boating license (up to 10m, Danube patent)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>Hobbies<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Programming<\/li><li>Running<\/li><li>Boating<\/li><li>Skiing<\/li><li>Reading<\/li><li>Listening to audiobooks<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>*Completed courses:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Apache Solr: Search Playbook<\/li><li>Data Transactions with Spring<\/li><li>Scaling Java Applications Through Concurrency<\/li><li>Deep Learning with Keras<\/li><li>Building Machine Learning Models in Spark 2<\/li><li>Structured Streaming in Apache Spark 2<\/li><li>Apache Spark Fundamentals<\/li><li>Beginning Data Exploration and Analysis with Apache Spark<\/li><li>Unity 2018 Fundamentals<\/li><li>Introduction to Graph Databases, Cypher, and Neo4j<\/li><li>The Building Blocks of Hadoop &#8211; 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