Marcel Bensch
Principal Software Engineer at hgdata
Decatur, Alabama, United States
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Top SchoolMarcel Bensch is a Principal Software Engineer and architect with over a decade of hands-on experience designing and delivering full-stack systems, from scalable React frontends to cloud-native backends. He has driven high-impact platform migrations and CI/CD transformations—most recently leading a Heroku-to-GCP move and Kubernetes/GitHub Actions rollout that enabled multiple daily releases while preserving 99.9% reliability. Marcel combines startup founder grit with enterprise discipline, having launched products that generated multimillion-dollar ARR and rebuilt core platforms to production-ready MVPs. He mentors engineers and elevates team velocity through pragmatic architecture, evidenced by frontend modernizations and search backend improvements that reduced bugs and boosted developer happiness. Based in Decatur, Alabama, he pairs deep technical execution with product-minded thinking and a knack for turning complex infrastructure projects into measurable business outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Software engineering IT-Management, Software engineering IT-Management at Fachhochschule Südwestfalen2012 Marketing Project Management Computer Sciences, 2012 Marketing Project Management Computer Sciences at UC Santa Barbara
German, English
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Github Skills (102)
instagram10
uploader10
encoding10
resumable10
tus10
redux10
modular9
javascript9
bbcode9
cli9
sms9
component-library9
command-line-tool9
froala9
twilio9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mbensch/reductor
Mar 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:7 releases, 2 PRs, 134 pushes in 2 months
bloomfire/homebrew-dependencies
Aug 2019 - Jun 2021
Custom Brew Tap to maintain our dependencies
Contributions:2 reviews, 3 PRs, 15 pushes in 1 year 10 months
brew-tapbrewdependencies
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