Marcel Kocks
Data Solution Engineer
Südlohn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolMarcel Kocks is a Data Solution Engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building robust backend systems and data solutions for public sector IT at Kreis Borken. He combines formal training in computer science (BSc, 1.2) and system integration with practical development skills, often tackling integration and media-handling challenges—evidenced by contributions to the popular go-whatsapp repository where he implemented audio, document, and video messaging and refactored media upload flows. Based in Südlohn, Germany, Marcel excels at resolving merge conflicts and modernizing codebases to support richer message types, showing both attention to detail and system-level thinking. His background in a dual study program and steady progression within the same organization underscore a pragmatic, long-term approach to delivering dependable solutions for civic technology.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS, Informatik.Softwaresysteme, 1,2, Bachelor of Science - BS, Informatik.Softwaresysteme, 1,2 at Westfälische HochschuleFachinformatiker, Systemintegration, Fachinformatiker, Systemintegration at IHK Nord Westfalen
Github Skills (6)
golang10
whatsapp10
go10
api-design9
api9
apim9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Rhymen/go-whatsapp
Jun 2018 - Mar 2021
WhatsApp Web API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 5 reviews, 136 commits in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Marcel primarily focused on modifying import paths and fixing merge conflicts within the `go-whatsapp` repository. They added and implemented audio, document, and video message types. The user implemented the media uploading structure for these media types. Additionally, the user added the contact message and refactored the existing code base.
whatsappwhatsapp-webreverse-engineeringgolanggo
Marcel-Kocks/PaintLab
Oct 2015 - Oct 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 62 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.