Marian Steinbach
User Experience Designer at Giant Swarm
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolMarian Steinbach is a User Experience Designer with over two decades at the intersection of design and technology and 14 years focused in professional roles, currently shaping product experiences at Giant Swarm from Cologne. He blends interaction design, information architecture and data/ information visualization to turn complex cloud-native and enterprise workflows into clearer, more usable interfaces. Marian pairs hands-on UX craft with practical engineering fluency—evident from backend contributions to the popular Kubernetes sanitizer Popeye, where he added checks and tests to surface cluster misconfigurations. His background spans agency, consultancy and independent practice, giving him a rare mix of client empathy and product-driven rigor. Trained at Köln International School of Design, he routinely translates dense technical constraints into elegant, testable design solutions. Colleagues describe him as someone who sees both the macro information structure and the small interaction details that make systems feel reliable.
14 years of coding experience
Diplom (comparable to Master), Diplom (comparable to Master) at Köln International School of Design
English, German, French
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Github Skills (22)
kubernetes10
python10
mysql10
http10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
golang10
pip10
k8s10
redirect10
testing9
ssl9
nginx6
shell6
macos6
Programming languages (29)
Github contributions (5)
derailed/popeye
Sep 2020 - Oct 2020
👀 A Kubernetes cluster resource sanitizer
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 12 commits, 6 PRs in 22 days
Contributions summary:Marian contributed to the Kubernetes resource sanitizer project, focusing on enhancing the functionality of node and pod sanitization. Their work included adding checks to identify and report potential issues like single master nodes, pods not being controlled by a resource, and services with only one associated endpoint. Furthermore, they added and adapted tests to ensure the code's functionality and reliability. These contributions directly improved the project's ability to detect and flag misconfigurations within Kubernetes clusters.
golangkubernetes-deploymentkubernetes-clusterssanitizerk8s
giantswarm/hubspot-blog-export
Apr 2015 - Apr 2019
Contributions:12 commits, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 4 years 1 month
ghostexportmigratehubspot
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