Marcel Alburg
Principal Engineer - Sustainability & Diversity And Inclusion at Zalando SE
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolMarcel Alburg is a Principal Engineer in Berlin with 11 years of experience building scalable e-commerce systems and driving cross-functional initiatives at Zalando. He combines deep hands-on backend and platform engineering with product-led work in sustainability, accessibility, and diversity & inclusion, leading projects from AI-generated alt text to accessible video players. Marcel excels at turning complex business requirements into reliable systems—examples include a high-throughput stock reservation system, a custom jersey-customization flow, and rapid category onboarding under pandemic pressure. He brings architectural perspective from platform to supply-chain and has repeatedly taken technical ownership of end-to-end features and processes. Known for mentoring and hiring, he also volunteers technical leadership within mission-driven teams, blending engineering rigor with social impact. His background as a founder and early mobile/web engineer gives him a pragmatic, product-focused approach to bringing novel ideas into production.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Fachinformatiker Systemintegration, Fachinformatiker Systemintegration at Oberstufenzentrum TeltowHochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin
English, German
Github Skills (200)
orientdb10
specification10
serverless10
browser10
graphql-query10
static-site-generator10
nodejs10
feign10
arcadedb10
rest-api10
netflix-eureka10
compiler10
serverless-plugin10
graph-store10
spring-boot10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
marcelalburg/spring-avro-converter
Nov 2014 - May 2015
Contributions:18 commits, 7 pushes in 6 months
marcelalburg/Jest
May 2016 - Sep 2017
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
rest-clientjava-restrestelasticsearchjava
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