Summary
Marcus Klein is a Delivery Principal with 12 years of experience leading digital transformation and agile delivery in large enterprises, currently driving outcomes at ThoughtWorks from Cologne. He has a strong track record modernizing retail and wholesale IT—shaping microservice architectures, CI/CD pipelines, and product-led engineering while previously heading IT Solutions and sourcing for METRO Cash & Carry. Marcus blends hands-on technical fluency (Docker, Kubernetes, Spring/Java, React) with organizational change: creating self-organizing teams, corporate startup practices, and turning vendor-led shops into engineering homes. He’s particularly focused on multi-channel commerce, pricing and checkout journeys, and pragmatic adoption of open source to accelerate delivery. An advocate for test-driven development and distributed agile, he pairs strategic vision with operational rigor to deliver scalable business impact.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer