Marcus Boerger
Software Engineer at Night Spark Media
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMarcus Boerger is a seasoned software engineer, tech‑lead manager and systems architect with over three decades of hands‑on experience building high-performance, mission‑critical systems from BIOS and custom OS kernels to Google‑scale search, mapping and storage platforms. He combines deep low‑level craftsmanship (firmware, OS, databases) with large‑scale distributed systems and product impact, having cut SSD costs by 50% for Google Search and reduced query latency for billions of requests. As a hands‑on leader he's managed cross‑functional global teams, run hundreds of hiring panels, and mentored engineers while evangelizing modern C++ and build tooling—championing C++11 at Google and C++23 at Snyk. At Snyk he re‑architected AI‑enhanced code scanning and reduced query latency by over 30%, and he continues to push symbolic and neural techniques into real‑time static analysis. An active open‑source contributor and longtime PHP/re2c maintainer, he also founded a publishing technology startup and now works on trading systems at G-Research, demonstrating a rare mix of entrepreneurial curiosity and enterprise impact. Notably, his career blends systems‑level innovation with practical tooling that daily influences thousands of engineers.
7 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at RWTH Aachen University
German, English
Github Skills (61)
objective-c10
c-language10
clang-tidy10
lexer10
build-system10
lru10
bazel10
opencensus10
toolchain10
include-what-you-use10
js10
cpp10
clangd10
scalable10
clang10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mboworks/mbo
Jun 2023 - Jul 2026
MBO, a C++20 library: This C++20 library provides some general useful building blocks and integrates with Google's Abseil library.
Contributions:41 releases, 307 PRs, 662 pushes in 3 years 1 month
abseilcppcpp20cpp20-librarygoogletest
helly25/re2c
Mar 2023 - Feb 2025
Contributions:3 PRs, 20 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 11 months
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