Markus Kohler
Software Architect At Strategic Projects
Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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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
26 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, 1 (excellent), Master's degree, Computer Science, 1 (excellent) at Technische Universität Kaiserslautern
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Github Skills (200)
testing10
bash10
vim10
automation10
dockerfile10
javascript-api10
javascript10
unix10
chromium10
firefox10
html10
golang10
developer-tools10
scalable10
cli10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
kohlerm/qmk_firmware
Aug 2017 - Jun 2022
Contributions:23 pushes in 4 years 10 months
controllerfirmwareavratmelusb
kohlerm/nixos-config
Nov 2021 - Oct 2022
My NixOS configurations.
Contributions:41 commits, 34 pushes, 2 branches in 11 months
nixos-configuration
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