Christian Maksymenko

Led with 9 architects, impacting 90 engineers. Led multinational teams of 16+ developers in providing Electric Vehicle Services on Azure. Managed technical roadmaps and aligned with product management. Directed integration of a new EV charge transaction platform. Co-coordinated cross-cloud migration of Kafka infrastructure. Advised on DKV mobile app architecture. Conceptualized Azure AI Custom Vision as a potential AI-driven UX enhancement for DKV Mobile App. Coached over 5 engineers & leaders.

Led a Micro Frontend architecture roadmap for DKV Cockpit, becoming a key strategic initiative in 2021; successfully completed in 2023. Coordinated the migration of Electric Vehicle Services to Azure Kubernetes, boosting team productivity and system efficiency. Advised staff in adopting API-first approaches, enhancing decision-making through emerging technology trends and established best practices. Contributed in shaping the customer-facing features of a new EV charging station fulfillment platform.

Worked on AI product roadmap with international stakeholders. Jointly identified & depriotized scope to support meeting emergent AI use cases. Led multinational teams for IDEMIA's AI Platform & SaaS Product. Designed an Azure GPU K8S deployment based on IDEMIA's post-event video analytics offering. Sized, cost-estimated & deployed an AI solution on Azure for novel intelligence services. Provided expertise on tech for AI applications. Shared key insights from major tech conferences.

Engineered an AI-driven video analytics platform. Implemented an AI facial recognition system at 2 major Middle Eastern airports. Collaborated closely with IDEMIA's US division on AI video analytics pilots across high-profile sectors in the US and UK. Jointly pioneered the production-ready K8S GPU deployment of IDEMIA's video analytics platform. Developed customizable self-service Azure cloud deployment processes. Contributed to an EU-funded AI project. Joint inventor on two US-granted AI patents.

Developed 2D and 3D games for Windows, delivering full games, prototypes, simulations, and libraries on time and within budget. Created three therapeutic games for a foundation, leveraging real-time heart rate data. Analyzed game productions, including requirements engineering and drafting design documents, ensuring the successful release of troubled projects.

Engineered a real-time AI-driven facial recognition system for enterprise clients. Designed and engineered a high-throughput service for facial & fingerprint recognition & alerting. Integrated various biometric subsystems & databases. Collaborated on US AI pilots at large-scale public events. Developed tools for biometric operations, system testing and AI performance benchmarking. Innovated a real-time AI surveillance process to address luggage theft, which was deployed at a major US airport.

Key contributor to 'STROMBERG: Büro ist Krieg!', a PC game co-launched with a popular TV series, comprising six mini-games inspired by scenes from the show. The game won the 'Best Mid-Price Game' at the German Developer Awards. Also developed a ragdoll simulation for a World War II game prototype to create advanced 3D character animations.

Studied Neuroinformatics focusing on Computer Vision, Computational Neuroscience, and Autonomous Robotics. Researched a new approach for facial feature location for master's thesis. Developed a lexico-semantic database from German-language Wiktionary for semantic search apps. Recognized as a top student in Concurrent Programming for 2010-2011.

Studied Media & Communication Informatics, focusing on Computational Linguistics and Neuroinformatics. Developed a solution for head location and pose tracking in video for bachelor's thesis. Researched noun disambiguation and linking using WordNet and ConceptNet. Recognized as a top student in Software Engineering and Web Development for 2007-2008.