Markus Kohler
Developer Relations Engineer
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMarkus Kohler is a Developer Relations Engineer with 11 years of experience building real-time, low-latency experiences across chat, maps, IoT, and live events. Based in Old Toronto, he blends hands-on engineering with community engagement—creating tutorials, webinars, and demos that help teams integrate PubNub’s real-time platform. He has co-founded startups (Pollar, Perceive), led backend and cloud architecture on AWS, and shipped microservices and Flutter frontends for consumer products. Markus drove PubNub’s AI strategy, building an AWS/Step Functions + LangChain SEO tool and partnering with AWS Bedrock to operationalize LLMs for product impact. His interests span developer tools, performance, visualization, and LLMs, and he’s contributed to Eclipse MAT, underscoring a background in tooling and performance analysis. Practical, product-focused, and community-minded, he excels at translating research and prototypes into production-ready developer experiences.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Software Engineering at Western University
Github Skills (200)
testing10
vim10
automation10
nike10
command-line-tool10
unix10
ecosystem10
firefox10
api10
html10
json10
groovy10
git-workflow10
commonjs10
bazel10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
kohlerm/nixos-config
Nov 2021 - Oct 2022
My NixOS configurations.
Contributions:41 commits, 34 pushes, 2 branches in 11 months
nix-flakenixos-configurationnixosnix-darwinhome-manager
kohlerm/qmk_firmware
Aug 2017 - Jun 2022
Contributions:23 pushes in 4 years 10 months
controllerfirmwareavratmelusb
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