Markus Schulte
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolMarkus Schulte is a software lead and cloud architecture consultant with 19+ years of hands-on engineering experience and over a decade as a freelancer, specializing in legacy-to-cloud modernization and cloud-native transformations. He architects event-driven, self-contained systems and has driven platform-wide migrations on AWS and Azure, delivering measurable outcomes like 99.9% uptime and deployment times reduced from days to 30 minutes. A polyglot backend engineer (Java, Go, TypeScript) who moved from monoliths to SCS/microservices, he also builds operational excellence through IaC, automated CI/CD and contract testing. Markus has led teams of 5–9 developers and acted as technical product owner across large B2B platforms, translating regulatory and security constraints into pragmatic architectures for banking and enterprise clients. As an entrepreneur, he created a successful Atlassian Bamboo add-on business serving 83 customers worldwide, evidencing product-minded engineering and sustained reliability. Based in Cologne, he combines deep practical delivery experience with a structured, people-focused approach that teams consistently praise for clarity and enjoyability.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Abitur, Abitur at Gymnasium HarenDiplom Computer Science, Diplom Computer Science at University of Koblenz and Landau
Stackoverflow
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53answers
57questions
hibernate
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spring-boot
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java
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arraylist
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validation
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Github Skills (200)
dependabot10
consumer-driven-contracts10
testing10
serverless10
groovy10
polyglot10
bitbucket10
mockito10
intellij10
github-issues10
php10
package-management10
fits10
junit10
ruby-client10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
SchulteMarkus/SchulteMarkus.github.io
Nov 2021 - Feb 2025
Contributions:5 PRs, 26 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 3 months
beautiful-jekylljekyllprofessional-websitestatic-web-app
SchulteMarkus/selenium-standalone-chrome-spring-boot-demo
Aug 2017 - Jun 2018
Demonstrating "selenium/standalone-chrome" in a Spring Boot project
Contributions:23 commits, 2 PRs, 11 pushes in 9 months
spring-bootselenium-standalonestandalonechromespring
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