Marius Tolzmann
Chief Technology Officer (CTO) & Founder at Terramate
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolMarius Tolzmann is a seasoned technology leader and founder with 15 years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure and developer-facing platforms from Berlin. As CTO and co-founder of Terramate he focuses on making cloud access secure and reliable, turning Terraform/OpenTofu/Terragrunt into fast, low-blast-radius workflows and improving pipeline visibility. He blends hands-on backend and DevOps work—demonstrated by deep contributions to the open-source Terramate project—with product leadership and platform migrations at scale (including an AWS shop migration). Comfortable across the stack, he has also contributed front-end bug fixes to notable projects like Tiptap, showing attention to UX edge cases as well as core system stability. Known for pragmatic automation and improving observability, he prefers shipping production-grade infrastructure and test-driven improvements that reduce developer toil.
15 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Diplom Informatiker, Diplom Informatiker at Technische Universität Berlin
English, c, perl, bash, German
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Github Skills (27)
editors10
git10
javascript10
rich-text10
editor10
terraform10
prosemirror10
go10
aac10
infrastructure-as-code10
react10
cicd9
terraformer9
logging9
gitops8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
terramate-io/terramate
Nov 2021 - Dec 2022
Open-source Infrastructure as Code (IaC) orchestration platform: GitOps workflows, orchestration, code generation, observability, drift detection, asset management, policies, Slack notifications, and more. Integrates with Terraform, OpenTofu, Terragrunt, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, BitBucket Pipelines, and any other CI/CD platform.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:593 reviews, 17 commits, 107 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Marius primarily contributed to improving the Terramate platform by fixing bugs related to change detection, global variable evaluation, and logging. They introduced and optimized core functionalities related to Git integration and stack management, including features such as diff names. The user also updated and optimized logging configurations and contributed towards test improvements across different modules. These changes suggest a focus on improving overall stability and functionality of the platform.
code-generationinfrastructurestacksmineirosinfrastructure-as-code
ueberdosis/tiptap
May 2019 - May 2019
The headless rich text editor framework for web artisans.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 5 PRs, 12 comments in 4 days
Contributions summary:Marius primarily contributed to bug fixes and improvements within the Tiptap rich text editor framework. Their work included addressing issues related to mark range calculations and node activation, as well as patching problems with pasting and input rules for various text formatting marks like italics and links. They also refactored code in examples to correctly reflect functionality.
jsrich-textvuewysiwyg-editorrenderless-components
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