Marco Starker
Senior Software Developer at prodactive
Vierkirchen, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolMarco Starker is a Senior Software Developer with 11 years of experience building web and backend systems across leisure, travel, games, e-commerce and construction industries. He is fluent in JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js and PHP, and applies Agile practices to deliver maintainable, production-ready code. Marco contributes to notable open-source projects—improving code quality in the popular bowser browser-detector and fixing subtle quoting bugs in Laravel Dusk—demonstrating attention to cross-stack integration and testing reliability. Based in Vierkirchen, Bavaria, he blends strong computer-science foundations with a practical focus on refactoring and robustness that reduces technical debt and improves developer experience.
11 years of coding experience
Zeppelin Group
German, English
Github Skills (9)
es6-modules10
javascript10
php10
browser10
laravel10
laravel-mix10
testing10
webdriver9
unit-testing9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
laravel/dusk
Feb 2020 - Feb 2020
Laravel Dusk provides simple end-to-end testing and browser automation.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 6 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Marco primarily focused on bug fixes within the `Laravel Dusk` framework, specifically addressing quoting issues in the `InteractsWithElements` class. Their contributions involved modifying code in both the test files and the core implementation to resolve these quoting problems. These changes indicate a focus on ensuring the correct functionality and reliability of the end-to-end testing framework. The commits suggest a good understanding of PHP and the Dusk framework's internal workings.
browser-automationlaravel-dusktestinglaravelwebdriver
bowser-js/bowser
Apr 2019 - Apr 2019
a browser detector
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 3 days
Contributions summary:Marco focused on improving the code quality and maintainability of the browser detection library. They addressed ES6 module import issues, switching from default to named exports in `src/constants.js` and related unit tests. Further contributions include fixing whitespace inconsistencies and removing unnecessary semicolons, contributing to cleaner code.
useragentbrowserdevice-detectionbrowsersbrowser-detection
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