Marcel Hild is an experienced open-source architect and engineer with 16 years of experience, currently shaping developer experience as Architect for Red Hat Developer Hub while running his long-standing projects at urandom.de and core membership at B4mad. He blends deep backend and full-stack skills—demonstrated by significant contributions to ManageIQ’s core APIs, chargeback logic and UI refactors—with leadership across Red Hat’s AIOps and AI Center of Excellence. Marcel has a strong track record of making provider integrations more pluggable and scalable for cloud platforms and driving adoption of ML/analytics across large engineering organizations. Known as an "old school opensource hacker" and self-described daemon zombie slayer, he pairs hacker curiosity with practical architecture and delivery experience. Based in Kiel, Germany, he quietly balances enterprise-scale engineering with grassroots open-source contributions and a passion for simracing.
15 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Hacker Informatik, Hacker Informatik at The University of Bonn
Contributions:334 commits, 239 PRs, 2082 comments in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Marcel primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the ManageIQ platform, focusing on enhancing the API and core database models. Their work involved implementing and validating chargeback rate details and ensuring the correct handling of bottleneck events. They also addressed bug fixes related to the presence of group and source in chargeback rate details and the failure of the event. Additionally, they refactored code and added specs to improve the platform's performance.
Contributions:30 commits, 6 PRs, 25 comments in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Marcel contributed to the classic UI of ManageIQ, making changes across both front-end and back-end code. Their work involved refactoring UI elements, updating controller logic for cloud provider integrations, and modifying helper files to support new features. They also addressed validation issues and improved the user interface for instance migration, demonstrating a good understanding of the application's architecture and functionality.
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