Marcus Schiesser
Germany
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Top SchoolMarcus Schiesser is a pragmatic software engineer with 14 years of experience delivering production-ready systems across Java, Python, and TypeScript, and a strong track record in cloud-native architectures on AWS and Azure. He combines hands-on implementation—Kubernetes, IaC with Terraform/Pulumi, CI/CD—and end-to-end ownership from product requirements to operations, making him effective on integration-heavy and modernization projects. As a former CTO and founder who built and led engineering teams in Taipei, he brings both strategic product judgment and people leadership to technical delivery. Recently he was a core maintainer of the TypeScript LlamaIndex implementation, contributing to production-grade agent and RAG workflows and open-source developer tooling. He also teaches backend development and event-driven design, which complements his knack for translating business goals into reliable software quickly. Available for remote-first DACH freelance engagements in senior backend, fullstack, cloud modernization, and AI-enabled platform engineering.
14 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Computer Science, Diploma, Computer Science at University of TübingenMaster of Business Administration (MBA), International Marketing, Master of Business Administration (MBA), International Marketing at ESB Business School, Reutlingen University
German, English, Spanish, French, Chinese
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Github Skills (200)
vector-database10
security10
chat10
huggingface10
visual-studio10
microservices10
embedding10
llama-index10
javascript10
chatgpt10
solidjs10
tauri10
editor10
location10
webui10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
run-llama/create-llama
Mar 2024 - Apr 2025
The easiest way to get started with LlamaIndex
Contributions:732 reviews, 384 PRs, 640 pushes in 1 year
run-llama/chat-ui
Oct 2024 - Mar 2025
Chat UI components for LLM apps
Contributions:42 reviews, 52 PRs, 68 pushes in 5 months
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