Markus Walther
Software Engineering Consultant at Saikō Technology
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMarkus Walther is a software engineering consultant and founder with nine years of experience designing cloud-native, event-driven systems and high-throughput backends for eSports and energy domains. He combines hands-on proficiency in Go, Clojure, TypeScript and C++ with strong GCP/AWS platform skills, IaC (Pulumi/Terraform), and CI/CD to deliver robust, performant solutions like matchmaking and anti-cheat systems. Markus has led architecture and implementation of latency-sensitive pipelines, real-time monitoring, and N-dimensional matchmaking algorithms while balancing engineering culture, KPIs and tech-debt management. As an active open-source contributor, he optimized and refactored a popular Go CS2 demo parser for performance, reflecting his focus on pragmatic, low-level improvements. Based in Bristol, he blends consultancy and product delivery experience with an unusual appetite for bitwise optimizations and functional design patterns.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Advanced Federal Diploma of Higher Education Computer Software Engineering, Advanced Federal Diploma of Higher Education Computer Software Engineering at TEKO Schweizerische Fachschule AGFederal VET Diploma Computer Science, Federal VET Diploma Computer Science at gibb Berufsfachschule Bern
German, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (14)
code-optimization10
bit10
go10
refactoring10
refactor10
bitwise10
develop9
html6
syntaxerror6
ajax6
javascript6
jquery6
sql-insert6
immutability6
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
markus-wa/demoinfocs-golang
Oct 2016 - Jan 2023
A Counter-Strike 2 Demo Parser for Go (demoinfo)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:120 releases, 82 reviews, 693 commits in 6 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Markus primarily focused on refactoring and reorganizing the codebase. They restructured existing code related to events and constants. The user made improvements by substituting multiplications, divisions, and modulo operations with bitwise operations. Moreover, the user implemented optimizations that improved performance, and refactored existing code to remove unneeded complexity.
golangcsgodemoinfocs-goreplays
markus-wa/swagger-codegen
Oct 2016 - Apr 2018
Contributions:27 pushes, 22 branches in 1 year 5 months
apitemplate-drivencodegenapi-clientsstubs
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