Marcel Offermans
Company Owner at Sim Formula Europe
Huissen, Gelderland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolMarcel Offermans is a seasoned software architect and engineering leader with 20+ years of experience building embedded, real-time, distributed and cloud systems, now running The Last Garage and serving as CTO of Sim Formula Europe. He blends hands-on architecture with executive experience from leading Studio 397 through growth and acquisition, and a long history at Luminis driving OSGi- and cloud-based provisioning platforms. An active Apache Software Foundation member and PMC participant (ACE, Celix, Felix), Marcel brings deep expertise in component-based and service-oriented architectures, dependency management and software provisioning. He frequently speaks and trains at conferences, translating complex middleware and simulation challenges into practical engineered solutions. Based in the Netherlands, he pairs an engineering background from Delft with a niche passion for simracing and realistic simulation products, uniquely bridging automotive-grade real-time systems and cloud-native deployment. Notably, his career combines product leadership with sustained open-source mentorship—often steering incubating projects toward production readiness.
20 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
VWO, VWO at CCNVVWO, VWO at Henric van Veldeke collegeir Mechanical Engineering, ir Mechanical Engineering at Delft University of Technology
Dutch, English, German
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Github Skills (67)
libgit210
apache-karaf10
apache-felix10
karaf10
network-server10
game-development10
godot10
robotics10
felix10
game-engine10
simulations10
git10
apache10
java10
dynamics10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
m4rr5/chrono
Jun 2022 - May 2024
High-performance C++ library for multiphysics and multibody dynamics simulations
Contributions:81 pushes, 11 branches in 1 year 11 months
physicscppc-librarymultiphysicsc-plus-plus
apache/ace
Jun 2009 - Aug 2015
Mirror of Apache ACE (incubating)
Contributions:682 commits in 6 years 2 months
javaaceincubatingapache
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