Markus Görlich
Senior Software Engineer at Zalando
Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolMarkus Görlich is a Senior Software Engineer based in Dortmund with 11 years of professional experience, currently contributing to Zalando’s engineering efforts after an eight-year tenure there. He holds a Diplom in Computer Science from TU Dortmund and combines strong technical depth with an uncommon background in psychology, which informs his pragmatic, user-aware approach to problem solving. His career spans enterprise and external consulting roles—bringing experience from WILO and long-standing media work at WDR—so he’s comfortable navigating both product-focused and operational environments. Known for direct communication, he prefers interactions that respect his time and expects outreach to be thoughtful and relevant. Markus focuses on delivering maintainable, scalable systems rather than flashy one-offs, and he values engineering discipline developed over sustained, real-world projects.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom, Informatik, Nebenfach: Psychologie, 1,7, Diplom, Informatik, Nebenfach: Psychologie, 1,7 at TU Dortmund UniversityMallinckrodt-Gymnasium, Dortmund
German, English
Github Skills (103)
authentication10
overhead10
rest-api10
api10
rest10
typescript10
nodejs10
documentation10
restful-api10
plugin10
restful10
oauth10
javascript9
fastify9
hapi9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
zalando-incubator/authmosphere
Jan 2017 - Nov 2022
A library to support OAuth2 workflows in JavaScript projects
Contributions:7 reviews, 135 commits, 126 PRs in 5 years 10 months
javascript-projectsjavascriptauthenticationoauth2-workflowsexpress-middleware
Retro64/scummvm
Jan 2022 - Jan 2022
ScummVM main repository
Contributions:9 pushes, 2 branches in 5 days
scummvm
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