Max Schurig

Founder and hands-on software developer building innovative business tools and web applications, with a focus on B2B software products and scalable web services.

Key contributions / focus:

• Leading the development of web-based software tools, ERPs, and contract development projects, handling both strategic and technical responsibilities
• Built a scalable, cloud-based WYSIWYG editor for scientific writing (marktex.app) with live collaboration using Lexical, Yjs, WebSockets, and Durable Objects, including cloud-based LaTeX compilation
• Implemented a modern, fully cloud-native architecture using React Router, PostgreSQL/Drizzle, Auth0, and Cloudflare (Workers/D1/R2/Containers/Queues) with CI/CD pipelines
• Managing a small founding team, sharing responsibilities across development, client interactions, and business strategy
• Developing a smart POS software for cellphone stores that recommends plans and hardware based on customer needs while optimizing for shop goals
• Focused on building user-centric, highly reliable software with scalability on cloud PaaS

Full-stack engineer responsible for the development, maintenance, and evolution of multiple mission-critical internal and client-facing applications in a small agile team.

Key contributions:

• Took full ownership of the rail planning tool (formerly a freelance project), maintaining and extending its complex real-time scheduling system for multi-user operational use
• Developed and maintained a client/project/order management tool using React, Laravel, and MySQL, transitioning it from legacy PHP to a modern full-stack architecture and improving operational reliability
• Contributed to the design and ongoing development of a cloud-hosted ERP platform for real estate agencies, including React frontend, Go backend, CI/CD pipelines, and collaboration features for hundreds of expected users
• Participated actively in architectural and design decisions across all projects, including performance optimization, real-time updates, and automated notifications
• Coordinated closely with team members in a flat agile setup, ensuring smooth delivery of new features and rapid response to issues
• Directly liaised with clients and management, presenting features, gathering requirements, and providing accurate development time estimates
• Maintained long-term business relationships through consistent, reliable delivery and proactive communication

Thesis: High gradient problems in additive manufacturing (ongoing)

Key contributions / focus:

• Developing novel nonlinear finite element solvers and adaptive time integrators to improve performance, accuracy, and robustness for transient solutions of nonlinear PDEs
• Implemented custom solver frameworks in MATLAB, Python (NumPy, SciPy), and C++/CUDA, including GPU and multi-threaded optimizations
• Benchmarked and validated new approaches against established tools (FEniCSx, FreeFEM++, MFEM, MATLAB PDE Toolbox), achieving performance gains of several orders of magnitude on regular grids
• Created visualization pipelines for volumetric 3D data using MATLAB, Matplotlib, and ParaView
• Combining rigorous numerical methods with real-world application, bridging method development and additive manufacturing problem-solving
• Publications in preparation, including “Overcoming the artifact problem of high gradient cooling in additive manufacturing”

Freelance software engineer responsible for initiating, specifying, and delivering a custom, mission-critical planning system for rail operations.

Key contributions:

• Initiated and pitched the replacement of a business-critical Excel-based disposition workflow with a custom software solution
• Led requirements discovery with disposition, maintenance, and sales teams to design a domain-specific planning and resource management system
• Designed and implemented a complex real-time web application for rail scheduling, resource allocation, and maintenance planning
• Built a graphical planning interface with advanced drag-and-drop interactions, conflict detection, and constraint enforcement
• Implemented live multi-user updates via WebSockets, ensuring a single source of truth for 24/7 operational use
• Introduced role-based access control, SSO, audit logging, and export functionality to meet operational and compliance needs
• Scaled development by coordinating a small team of developers while retaining architectural and product ownership
• Deployed and operated the system on-premise
• Rolled out the application through user training and onboarding, enabling a smooth transition for a critical operational change

Started as a Working Student and progressed to Project Manager and Digital Transformation Officer, leading client projects and company-wide process digitization in an electrical engineering firm focused on e-mobility infrastructure.

Key contributions:

• Led end-to-end execution of e-mobility infrastructure projects, coordinating internal teams, contractors, and external stakeholders
• Managed parallel short-cycle projects, ensuring on-time delivery under tight execution windows
• Designed and implemented digital project management workflows, improving transparency, coordination, and execution speed
• Built a digital product catalog with automated quotation and project cost calculation, reducing manual effort and error rates
• Developed internal helper tools for standards-compliant electrical design, improving planning quality and consistency
• Introduced company-wide digital infrastructure (wiki, cloud storage, digital forms, data transfer interfaces) to replace fragmented manual processes
• Supported management in client acquisition, proposal preparation, and strategic repositioning toward larger-scale B2B projects

Thesis: Time simulation of High Thermal Gradient Problems in Additive Manufacturing (1.0)

Thesis: Maße auf topologischen Räumen (2.0)