Marcel Eichner
Staff Engineer at Bitly
Steinreich, Brandenburg, Germany
Summary
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RockstarMarcel Eichner is a Staff Engineer based in Steinreich, Germany with over 16 years of hands-on experience building high-performance web applications primarily in JavaScript and PHP. He has progressed from founding and leading small agencies to senior and staff roles at companies including Egoditor and Bitly, bringing both entrepreneurial grit and large-product discipline. Marcel focuses on clean, fast-performing code, is expanding his toolset into Go, and frequently operates across frontend and backend boundaries as a full-stack problem solver. Known for long-term continuity—running his own firm for two decades—he combines deep legacy knowledge with modern stack practices and mentoring senior engineers. Outside work he’s a father and avid BBQ enthusiast, a personal detail that hints at his patient, craft-oriented approach to engineering.
16 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
German, English, French
Stackoverflow
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aggregation-framework
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mongodb
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mongodb-query
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Github Skills (158)
countdown10
xmlhttprequest10
newman10
python10
api-client10
command-line-interface10
npm-package10
uint8array10
http-client10
automation10
magic-numbers10
command-line-tool10
monitoring10
javascript10
browser10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Ephigenia/circleboard
Dec 2013 - Dec 2016
Contributions:47 commits, 2 pushes, 5 comments in 3 years
Ephigenia/franklin
May 2010 - Jul 2015
Contributions:259 commits, 10 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 2 months
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