Summary
Marco Helmich is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building resilient, distributed systems and data platforms from startups to large enterprises across the Bay Area. He designs and ships globally distributed, high-availability stores and data pipelines (Raft/etcd-based systems, Kafka, streaming) while also delivering practical front-end and API work in React, GraphQL, and TypeScript. Marco has repeatedly owned end-to-end services—design, deployment on AWS, CI/CD, and incident response—bringing reliability-first thinking to authentication, document storage, and observability workloads. Currently at Skyflow, he blends deep systems expertise with a data-driven curiosity for using collected data in ML and analytics. Colleagues appreciate that he treats hard technical problems as opportunities to make users happy, and his Github quip haters > /dev/null hints at a pragmatic, engineer-first sense of humor.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Software Systems Engineering, BS, Software Systems Engineering at Hasso-Plattner-Institute