Markus Herrmann
Principal at valantic (vormals mm1)
Western Cape, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolMarkus Herrmann is a principal consultant and product leader with 15+ years of experience turning complex telecom and digital infrastructure challenges into scalable business models across open-access FTTH/B, BSS transformations, connected mobility, and low-latency cloud/AR‑VR platforms. He combines consulting rigor, operator credibility and an entrepreneurial mindset—owning mission‑critical programs with C‑level exposure, P&L responsibility and teams of 300+ FTE. Markus has repeatedly moved concepts into business ownership, from building wholesale pricing and regulatory-aligned GTM plans to commercialising connected-car and mobile payment products. He also contributes hands-on to open-source tooling (improving native bindings and TensorFlow integration in the popular OpenCVSharp wrapper), underscoring his ability to bridge product strategy and technical detail. Based in Western Cape, South Africa, he thrives where strategy is execution-heavy and where technology, regulation and commercial reality collide.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Dipl. Ing. Civil and Structural Engineering, Dipl. Ing. Civil and Structural Engineering at Technical University of MunichA-Levels Mathematics and Chemistry, A-Levels Mathematics and Chemistry at Adam-Kraft-Gymnasium Schwabach
English, German, Spanish
Github Skills (10)
net10
asp-net10
computer-vision10
opencv10
dotnet10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
tensorflow9
nuget8
image-processing7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
shimat/opencvsharp
Sep 2018 - Dec 2020
OpenCV wrapper for .NET
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 5 PRs, 1 comment in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Markus primarily contributed to the OpenCVSharp library, focusing on improving the stability and functionality of the native bindings. They addressed exceptions within the `GetDelegateForFunctionPointer` calls by implementing try-catch blocks and logging the exceptions to the console. Furthermore, the user added wrappers to read Tensorflow configurations from memory and stream. They also incorporated the reading of the dictionary from file for the Aruco module.
dotnetwrappernugetopencvsharpimage-processing
MHerrmannSOLID/opencvsharp
Sep 2018 - Apr 2023
.NET Framework wrapper for OpenCV
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
dotnetcsharpnet-framework
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