Summary
Andreas Marr is a Senior Engineering Manager based in Berlin with 15 years of hands-on and leadership experience building decoupled, revenue-critical backend systems and platform teams. At Zattoo he founded the Backend Capabilities Squad, blending engineering management, product ownership, and architecture to enable cross-team reuse, discoverability and event-driven integrations using Kafka and CQRS patterns. He combines full-stack execution from his earlier engineering roles with a strategic focus on platform thinking, sustainability and developer enablement. Known for mentoring engineers and managers, Andreas favors transparent documentation and organizational change alongside technical refactors. His background spans startups to media agencies, where he repeatedly turned tightly coupled legacy systems into maintainable, scalable architectures.
14 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Fernuniversität Hagen
Philosophy Mathematics Computer Science, Philosophy Mathematics Computer Science at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Technische Kybernetik, Technische Kybernetik at TU Vaihingen
Abitur, Abitur at Gynmasium Höchstadt a. d. Aisch
English, German, French