Summary
Malte Legenhausen is a senior software engineer with 11 years of experience building full-stack systems and architecting software, currently contributing at Unsplash from Bremen. He blends deep Java and JavaScript expertise—Node.js, GWT, Spring/Hibernate—with practical database and tooling experience (MongoDB, Eclipse, Android) gained across research and industry roles. As co-founder and lead developer at werk85 for a decade, he has hands-on product ownership experience alongside his academic background in computer science from Universität zu Lübeck. His early work at DLR and the Institute for Telematics seeded a strong foundation in Eclipse plugin development, visualization, and open-source stewardship. Comfortable moving between backend services and GUIs, he often bridges legacy Java stacks with modern JS tooling to deliver maintainable systems. Colleagues value his pragmatic architecture focus and the way he translates academic rigor into production-ready code.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Engineering, Informationstechnik, Bachelor of Engineering, Informationstechnik at Duale Hochschule Mannheim
Master of Science, Informatik, Master of Science, Informatik at Universität zu Lübeck