Summary
Janina Marks is an engineering manager (acting) and seasoned software engineer with seven years of professional experience driving web and backend engineering at Zalando from individual contributor to leadership. Based in Berlin, she combines hands-on Java and web application expertise with team leadership, having progressed internally from Software Engineer to Senior Engineer and now into management since 2017. Her background includes long-term practical experience in enterprise and academic environments, where she worked on web-based e-learning tools, TYPO3 data migration, and Java web apps as a student assistant. Janina is comfortable operating at the intersection of delivery and people management, balancing technical ownership with coaching and process improvement. She brings a pragmatic mindset shaped by evolving responsibilities and partial graduate studies in software engineering, which signal a focus on applied engineering over academic credentials. Colleagues would describe her as a steady executor who scales impact by lifting both code quality and team capability.
7 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) not completed - change of focus on Software Engineering, Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.) not completed - change of focus on Software Engineering, Computer Science at Technische Universität Dortmund
Master of Science (M.Sc.) - not completed, Applied Computer Science - Software Systems Engineering, Master of Science (M.Sc.) - not completed, Applied Computer Science - Software Systems Engineering at Universität Duisburg-Essen
German, English, French