hey, call me Max

I'm Johannes Maximilian Toball and years old

Having been born and raised in Northern Bavaria

and studying in Passau, I'm now at home in Berlin

I work as Staff Engineer at Contentful,

marking the height of my years in the industry,

having worked with many technologies and all around the stack

but never far from data (I like data).

In my freetime I live for music, keep active by doing Yoga and lifting weights, cook & bake with passion and mix in many other interests in the spaces of language, technology and history.

active projects

A Giant Reset

A one-off(?) blogging effort when I went for a hike between my Jobs at One Data and Contentful. See the code here to watch me take my first steps with Contentful.

rockscape

All the data of who played with whom when where, visualized. Yet to be published.

human-date-parser

helper-lib to parse human-produced dates. Available for node.js & browsers.

sortr

sort indented files like YAMLs.

cli-confirm

Confirm actions on the CLI for node scripts.

dead projects

Inseln der Winde (2003-2008)

Together with some other enthusiasts I founded this Ultima Online Freeshard and contributed to it with web- and map-designs, Python-scripting and hosting.

PHP-Fusion: Open-Source CMS (2004-2009)

I supported the multi-national PHP-Fusion-team as a Designer, Developer, Dev-Team Lead and Management Team Member.

wtchr.io (2013-2014)

The internet's all seeing eye, similar to what Browse AI does now.

Moniteam (2017-2019)

Monitoring for team KPIs, not servers.

find me here

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Find my projects and open source contributions on GitHub

Check out my professional profile on LinkedIn

See what I'm listening to right now on last.fm