Marcus Denker
Tenured Research Scientist (CRCN) at ZWEIDENKER GmbH
Lille, Hauts-de-France
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Top SchoolMarcus Denker is a tenured research scientist at INRIA Lille with 20 years of experience blending academic rigor and engineering pragmatism in programming languages and live systems. He holds a PhD in Computer Science and has a long track record of postdoctoral and visiting research positions, plus co-founding a software company, demonstrating both deep research and entrepreneurial instincts. At INRIA he works on the RMoD team while also contributing to open-source ecosystems—most notably automating builds and tests for the well-known Pharo Smalltalk project, improving VM integration and artifact management. His background includes early work with Alan Kay’s media research group and hands-on systems administration, reflecting a rare mix of historical Smalltalk expertise and modern DevOps craftsmanship. Colleagues describe him as a durable bridge between language research and production tooling, able to translate experimental ideas into reliable build and release pipelines.
20 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at University of BernAbitur, Abitur at Gymnasium am LöhrtorDipl.-Inform. (Master of Science), Computer Science, Dipl.-Inform. (Master of Science), Computer Science at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
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Github Skills (11)
pharo10
bash10
bootstra10
bootstrap10
scripting10
build-automation10
cicd10
tooling9
smalltalk6
docker6
dockers6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
pharo-project/pharo
Jun 2017 - Jan 2023
Pharo is a dynamic reflective pure object-oriented language supporting live programming inspired by Smalltalk.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Build Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Build Automation EngineerContributions:1525 reviews, 5946 commits, 7581 PRs in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Marcus's contributions primarily revolve around automating the Pharo build and test processes. They have modified build scripts, updated VM download mechanisms, and adapted test execution procedures to leverage a Pharo 9 VM environment. Furthermore, the user has introduced archiving of hermes packages and RPackage definitions, indicating improvements in build artifact management and dependency handling.
pharosmalltalkreflectivebootstrapobject-oriented-programming
ApptiveGrid/MoniBase
Mar 2022 - Jul 2022
OmniBase is Smalltalk efficient objects repository, BTree and filesystem based with full ACID features
Contributions:17 reviews, 89 commits, 117 PRs in 4 months
btreefilesystemsmalltalk
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