Markus Spanier
Staff Platform Engineer
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolMarkus Spanier is a Staff Platform Engineer based in Munich with nine years of experience building and leading platform teams across consultancy and product environments. He progressed from software consultant and senior consultant roles at TNG to platform leadership at Personio, where he moved from Lead to Staff Platform Engineer, demonstrating rapid growth in operational and architectural ownership. With a doctorate in computer algebra from Universität Passau, he brings strong theoretical grounding to practical platform engineering, particularly in designing reliable, scalable developer-facing systems. Markus combines hands-on implementation skills with mentoring and cross-team coordination, helping teams adopt robust CI/CD and observability practices. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who translates complex research-level concepts into maintainable production solutions. Outside core responsibilities he favors bridging academia and industry approaches, applying formal thinking to improve platform reliability and developer experience.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Science Computer Algebra, Doctor of Science Computer Algebra at Universität Passau
Github Skills (88)
assert10
architecture10
java10
aws10
repeat9
testing9
hexagonal-architecture9
ports-and-adapters9
development-kit9
kotlin9
archunit9
aws-cloud9
continuous-integration9
typescript9
cloud-infrastructure9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
spanierm42/archunit-junit5-kotlin
Oct 2018 - Sep 2022
Generic Architecture Tests written in Kotlin using ArchUnit and Junit5
Contributions:13 commits, 3 PRs, 16 pushes in 3 years 11 months
archunitonion-architecturearchitectural-patternsports-and-adapterstesting
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