Marco Hofstetter
Software Engineer at Isovalent
St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
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Top SchoolMarco Hofstetter is a software engineer with 10 years’ experience building cloud-native platforms and developer tooling, currently contributing to Cilium at Isovalent from St. Gallen, Switzerland. He brings deep backend and DevOps expertise — from implementing Envoy deployment modes and metrics in a high-profile eBPF project to improving Gradle multi-project builds and artifact management in Thorntail. His career spans platform architecture, CI/tooling and product-focused cloud engineering at Adcubum and Ergon, showing a consistent focus on modularization and reliable build pipelines. Known for pragmatic, test-driven changes in open source, he blends production-grade systems thinking with hands-on implementation. A BSc in Computer Science underpins his technical foundation and long-term commitment to platform reliability.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at HSR Hochschule für Technik RapperswilMatura, Matura at Kantonsschule am Burggraben, St. Gallen
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Github Skills (14)
dependency-management10
javas10
cilium10
kubernetes10
microservices-application10
microservices10
gradlew10
build-automation10
java10
kubernetes-pods10
gradle10
api-design9
logging9
go8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
cilium/cilium
Feb 2023 - Apr 2025
eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:935 reviews, 342 PRs, 93 pushes in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Marco's contributions primarily revolve around the introduction of features and improvements for Cilium's Envoy proxy, particularly related to its deployment and management. They implemented configurations for running Envoy in embedded and external DaemonSet modes. Further contributions included adjustments to log formats and file paths, while also adding detailed metrics and testing the implementation of the changes.
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thorntail/thorntail
Jun 2016 - Sep 2016
Source code for the Thorntail project
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 5 PRs, 13 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Marco primarily focused on enhancing the Gradle build process within the Thorntail project. Their contributions include adding support for multi-project builds, integrating Gradle for artifact management, and addressing a StackOverflowError related to artifact resolution. They also made modifications to the artifact manager and plugin, demonstrating a focus on improving dependency handling and overall build efficiency for the project.
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