Marcel Sauer is a Senior Developer and Technical Design Lead based in Hamburg with 15 years of experience architecting cloud-native, secure software for large retail and media organizations. Currently driving technical design at OTTO, he blends hands-on development with leadership experience from team lead and head-of-development roles at bonprix and EliteMedianet. Passionate about cloud and DevSecOps, he focuses on building resilient, observable systems and mentoring engineering teams to adopt secure, automated delivery practices. His background spans Java/JEE roots to modern cloud architectures, giving him a pragmatic perspective on legacy migration and scalable platform design. Known as a learner and mentor, he brings both people-first leadership and deep technical fluency to complex cross-functional projects. Outside work he balances engineering rigor with family life, which informs his practical, sustainable approach to team and system design.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
similar B.Sc. (Hons), similar B.Sc. (Hons) at University Of Applied Sciences Schmalkalden (Germany)
Token Replacer is a simple and small Java Library that helps replacing tokens in strings. You can replace the tokens with static values or create values "on-the-fly" by calling a generator. You can even pass arguments to the generator which makes it pretty powerful.
Contributions:82 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 7 years 9 months
Contributions:7 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
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Marcel Sauer - Senior Developer Technical Design Lead at OTTO