Maxim Piessen
CTO, Co-founder at Credix
Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
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Top SchoolMaxim Piessen is a Belgium-based technology leader, CTO and co-founder of Credix, based in Kapellen, Antwerp, guiding the company’s mission to unlock global credit markets through advanced decentralized technologies. Over eight years, he has bridged research and product, defining AI and data strategy at IntellectEU, leading the VELMA wealth-management product, and building scalable underwriting capabilities at Credix. His formal training spans physics (magna cum laude) and advanced AI/big data analytics, complemented by a full-stack development background from Le Wagon. He also dedicates time to education, teaching data science at Le Wagon and delivering corporate training to bring practical ML and analytics into teams. Outside fintech, he founded Photrea, a selective photo-sharing platform, underscoring a hands-on, entrepreneurial approach across domains.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Physics, Magna cum laude (80%), Bachelor's degree, Physics, Magna cum laude (80%) at Universiteit AntwerpenAdvanced master, Artificial intelligence and big data analytics, Magna cum laude (80%), Advanced master, Artificial intelligence and big data analytics, Magna cum laude (80%) at KU Leuven1st semester master's degree, Physics, Summa cum laude (89%), 1st semester master's degree, Physics, Summa cum laude (89%) at Stellenbosch University/Universiteit StellenboschFull stack developer, Webdevelopment, Full stack developer, Webdevelopment at Le WagonScience mathematics (8u), Science mathematics (8u) at Moretus Ekeren
Dutch, English, German, French, Afrikaans
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (22)
plugin9
sequel9
sinatra9
dev-tool8
rails7
pagination7
ruby-on-rails6
anchor6
cloudflare-workers6
ruby6
cloudflare6
activerecord5
solana5
datamapper5
artificial-intelligence5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
MaximPiessen/instagram_network_analysis
May 2019 - Sep 2020
Contributions:8 commits, 3 PRs, 7 pushes in 1 year 4 months
MaximPiessen/photrea
Nov 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:99 PRs, 123 pushes, 38 branches in 24 days
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