Mark Hoffmann
CEO at Data In Motion
Jena, Thuringia, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Hoffmann is a seasoned technology leader and CEO with over a decade of experience building and advising software teams from Jena, Germany. He founded and leads Data in Motion Consulting GmbH, blending deep technical expertise in OSGi, Eclipse RCP/E4, modelling (EMF/Xtext) and distributed systems with hands-on consulting, training and workshop moderation. As a former CTO and serial founder he consistently bridges architecture and delivery—focusing on modular Java platforms, lightweight servers like Gyrex, and build toolchains such as Maven/Tycho. His approach explicitly considers social and emotional aspects of projects, pairing technical solutions with team coaching and Scrum-based project management. Educated in business and IT, he uniquely combines product-minded leadership with low-level integration and tooling skills developed across enterprise and rich-client domains. Not obvious from titles alone: he actively shapes developer workflows through modelling and build automation to make complex, modular systems reproducible and maintainable.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master, General Management, Master, General Management at University of Applied Sciences Jena
English
Github Skills (62)
bnd10
bndtools10
osgi-bundle10
eclipse-plugin10
maven-plugin10
java10
osgi10
yourkit10
assembler10
maven10
gradle-plugin10
eclipse10
gradle10
webservice9
junit9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
maho7791/osgi
Apr 2022 - Nov 2024
Contributions:16 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 7 months
apiproject-specificationbuild-projectspecificationosgi
geckoprojects-org/org.gecko.playground
May 2022 - Mar 2026
Some OSGi demo projects
Contributions:1 review, 4 PRs, 33 pushes in 3 years 10 months
osgi
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