Summary
Markus Gürtler is a Senior Technology Evangelist with over 20 years in IT, combining hands-on engineering, solution architecture and leadership across Open Source, SAP and AI domains. Based in Munich, he builds and leads teams that deliver SAP on Linux, OpenStack cloud infrastructure and enterprise AI solutions, and currently heads B1 Systems’ new AI practice. He has deep expertise in LLMs, diffusion models, agentic systems and both open-source and commercial AI stacks, plus practical experience designing AI strategy and training technical audiences. Previously he managed SAP-focused engineering and solution architect teams at SUSE, developing high-availability and enterprise SAP solutions. A long-time Linux user and open-source evangelist since the 1990s, he blends low-level infrastructure knowledge with a speaker’s knack for translating complex technical topics into business value.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Fachhochschule München
English, German