Markus Knauer
Senior Software Developer at EclipseSource
Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Summary
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RockstarMarkus Knauer is a Senior Software Developer with 19 years of experience, specializing in Eclipse, OSGi/Equinox, and cloud-native tooling from his base in Karlsruhe, Germany. As a longtime EclipseSource engineer he leads the Eclipse Packaging Project, producing the bundles downloaded millions of times yearly, and co-leads the Eclipse RAP project for modular business apps across desktop, browser and mobile. His influence extends into governance roles—member of the Eclipse Planning Council, EclipseRT PMC, the Architecture Council, and the Board of Directors—so he blends hands-on engineering with strategic stewardship of a major open-source ecosystem. Markus is experienced in delivering production-grade frameworks and packages that prioritize modularity and cross-platform deployment, and he frequently bridges community needs with release engineering. Colleagues rely on him for both technical leadership and the operational know-how that keeps widely used developer tooling reliable at scale.
19 years of coding experience
English, German
Github Skills (67)
cordova-plugin10
theia10
eclipse10
rcp10
javascript10
ajax10
rap10
java10
android10
tabris10
ios10
swt10
geolocation9
react-native9
barcode-scanner9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
eclipse-rap/org.eclipse.rap.tools
Nov 2007 - Jan 2023
Eclipse RAP Tools (Remote Application Platform)
Contributions:24 reviews, 334 commits, 134 PRs in 15 years 4 months
theiaapplication-platformeclipsejavarap
eclipse-rap/org.eclipse.rap.website
Oct 2022 - Dec 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 48 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 2 months
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