Marko Schilde is a seasoned VP Engineering and former CTO/co-founder with 15+ years of experience scaling engineering organizations, architectures and products across startups and enterprise environments. He helped grow Comtravo from pre-seed to a Series B exit and has led teams of 10–30 engineers across infrastructure, data science and product engineering. Deeply technical, he specializes in backend architecture, databases, API design and AWS-driven infrastructure and has hands-on history building high-throughput systems (DSPs handling 100k+ QPS). Marko also contributes to the DefinitelyTyped TypeScript ecosystem, maintaining typings for popular libraries like mapbox-gl, showing ongoing commitment to developer ergonomics beyond product delivery. Based in Berlin, he combines startup grit with enterprise delivery discipline to turn machine-learning and distributed systems work into reliable production outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom Informatik, Diplom Informatik at FAU Erlangen
Informatik, Informatik at Technische Universität Ilmenau
Contributions:9 reviews, 5 commits, 4 PRs in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Marko primarily contributes to the `definitelytyped` repository, which focuses on TypeScript type definitions. Their work involves creating and updating type definitions for various libraries. This includes merging pull requests, adding missing options, and fixing type-related issues in existing definitions. A significant portion of the user's work is focused on updating the definitions for libraries such as `cli-progress` and `mapbox-gl`.
Github action to auto-label PRs with merge conflicts
Contributions:2 releases, 1 review, 35 commits in 1 year 8 months
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Marko Schilde - VP Engineering BPATech at HRS Group