Markus Hänel
Solopreneur & Freelancer at Berstend Ventures GmbH
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolMarkus Hänel is a Berlin-based solopreneur and senior full stack engineer with 13 years of experience building and monetizing consumer software at scale. As co-founder and CTO of ZenMate he helped grow a privacy product to over 45 million users and later exited to Kape Technologies, and he now applies that same product-first engineering rigor to self-funded ventures at Berstend Ventures. He blends hands-on development, architecture and technical due diligence with a disciplined focus on profitability and early validation, shipping usable products that solve real user problems. Comfortable leading teams or going solo, Markus has a track record of turning constrained resources into sustainable businesses and improving daily life for tens of thousands of users. A pragmatic technologist, he values readable, tested code and maintainable architectures—skills grounded in early experience building popular consumer software like RapidShare’s download manager.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Startup, Computer Science, Startup, Computer Science at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences
English, German
Stackoverflow
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107reached
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Github Skills (200)
testing10
automation10
nike10
schema10
akamai10
recaptcha10
service-worker10
firefox10
api10
nodejs10
localtunnel10
xbox10
web-testing10
code-generator10
yarn-workspaces10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
berstend/hypertunnel
Jun 2018 - Jun 2018
✨ Expose any local TCP/IP service on the internet.
Contributions:71 commits, 66 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
sslsniexpose-localhostfree-servicehypertunnel
berstend/puppeteer-extra
May 2018 - Aug 2022
💯 Teach puppeteer new tricks through plugins.
Contributions:55 reviews, 673 commits, 188 PRs in 4 years 3 months
headless-browsermonoreporecaptchapuppeteer-pluginsakamai
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