Björn Marschollek
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolBjörn Marschollek is a Senior Software Engineer based in Munich with nine years of experience building data-intensive, real-time and distributed systems. Currently at Datadog, he specializes in streaming, metrics and observability platforms, having previously operated one of Europe’s largest data platforms at Skyscanner processing millions of messages per second. He combines strong backend and infrastructure skills—Kafka, OpenTSDB/Prometheus, HBase, Kubernetes—and a track record of improving CI/CD and deployment workflows, including migrating projects to Go modules and Docker optimizations. An active open-source maintainer and contributor (notably on the Bosun monitoring project), he blends developer enablement with on-call ownership and incident command experience. Known for pragmatic automation and tooling, he accelerates engineering teams by turning complex operational stacks into reliable, testable platforms.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Abitur (Academic high school diploma), 2,1, Abitur (Academic high school diploma), 2,1 at Städtisches Gymnasium Heißen, Mülheim an der RuhrDipl.-Inform. (M.Sc. equivalent), Informatik, 1.2, Dipl.-Inform. (M.Sc. equivalent), Informatik, 1.2 at RWTH Aachen University
German, English
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Github Skills (28)
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alertifyjs10
alertview10
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automation10
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
bosun-monitor/bosun
Nov 2019 - May 2021
Time Series Alerting Framework
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:7 reviews, 38 commits, 30 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Björn primarily focused on improving the build and deployment processes within the bosun-monitor repository. They migrated the project to Go modules, added a Makefile for common tasks, and created a startup test script. Furthermore, the user addressed the Docker build setup, optimizing it with separate containers for OpenTSDB and HBase, and removing unnecessary environment variables, showing strong infrastructure and automation skills.
time-series-analysisbosunalertingtime-seriesmonitoring
muffix/bosun
Nov 2019 - May 2021
Time Series Alerting Framework
Contributions:61 pushes, 19 branches in 1 year 6 months
alertingtime-seriestime-series-analysistimeseries
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