Maximilian Walterskirchen

I build production software with AI in the loop and write about the engineering side of doing it well.

At Staffgenius I work on inplan, where we use AI and agents to automate shift planning for Swiss hospitals. Before that I co-founded a luxury real estate marketplace and spent four years building web apps for Austrian enterprises. I've been building software professionally for six years, mostly in TypeScript.

I'm interested in the boring engineering questions underneath the hype: how to make agents reliable, how to ship AI features that don't fall apart on contact with users, and how to stay a good engineer while the tools change underneath you.

I co-write Thought Terminating, a weekly newsletter on agentic coding, and give the occasional talk. I also volunteer at ZurichJS, where I reviewed talk submissions for the conference.