Marius Bethge
Senior Software Engineer at Google
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolMarius Bethge is a Senior Software Engineer based in Zurich with 12 years of hands-on experience building web and cloud-native systems, currently working at Google. He has evolved from front-end development and search optimization to platform and DevOps roles, pairing deep JavaScript/browser knowledge with infrastructure automation on AWS and Terraform. At Google he progressed through Technical Solutions and Web Solutions roles into a senior engineering position, bringing both customer-facing problem solving and scalable engineering practices. An active contributor to web platform tooling, he refined pointer event behaviors in a widely used Pointer Events Polyfill, adding cross-browser tests that improved touch and mouse interaction fidelity. Marius combines rigorous academic training in computer science with practical experience reducing latency, streamlining CI/CD, and mentoring teams to ship reliable production systems.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science at The University of FreiburgMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science at Freie Universität BerlinDomgymnasium Verden
German, English
Stackoverflow
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13answers
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Github Skills (15)
testing10
uitest10
compatible10
javascript10
pointer-events10
ui-testing10
browser-support10
web-development9
html6
browser6
macos6
scroll6
python6
zip6
gcc6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jquery-archive/PEP
Jun 2015 - Apr 2017
Pointer Events Polyfill: a unified event system for the web platform
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:24 commits, 37 PRs, 12 pushes in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Marius primarily contributed to the testing and refinement of the Pointer Events Polyfill, focusing on mouse and touch interactions. Their commits addressed specific browser deviations, like handling Firefox's button behavior, and included the addition of functional tests to validate pointer event behavior such as capture, leave events, and pointer type. The user also updated the testing infrastructure and addressed issues related to event propagation and capture.
web-platformeventspolyfilljavascriptpointer
bethge/PEP
May 2015 - Apr 2017
Pointer Events Polyfill: a unified event system for the web platform
Contributions:57 pushes, 27 branches in 1 year 11 months
web-platformeventspolyfilljavascriptpointer
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