Markus Westerholz
Senior Software Architect at Blackpurl
North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMarkus Westerholz is a Senior Software Architect with 10 years of experience building cloud-native, cost-optimized systems and leading engineering transformations from North Vancouver, Canada. He has a strong track record as a hands-on CTO and principal engineer, having driven serverless migrations that cut operating costs by an order of magnitude while improving performance and scalability. Markus excels at turning complex legacy codebases into modular, event-driven microservice architectures, and at scaling remote and local teams through clear standards, mentorship, and pragmatic DevOps. He blends product-aligned technical strategy with execution—managing roadmaps, code reviews, and hands-on development—to bridge business goals and engineering delivery. A former game-audio and embedded systems engineer, he brings rare breadth from low-level optimization to cloud architecture, and a history of cutting build times and operational costs through practical engineering discipline.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)General Qualification for University Entrance (“Abitur”), General Qualification for University Entrance (“Abitur”) at Silverberg Gymansium Bedburg
English, German
Github Skills (81)
aws9
terraform8
terraform-provider8
gherkin8
amazon8
lexer7
perl7
terraform-module7
command-line-interface7
parser7
amazon-web-services7
building-blocks7
stream6
cli6
simplify6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
venzee/githubify
Feb 2018 - Nov 2019
Convert Markdown files to Github compatible ones\n\nCurrently supports Mermaid-Diagram-to-SVG conversion
Contributions:33 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
mermaidsvgconversiondiagrammarkdown
noisygerman/object-streaming-tools
Jun 2017 - Mar 2020
Helper functions to simplify creating and concatenating object streams in NodeJS
Contributions:1 release, 11 PRs, 26 pushes in 2 years 10 months
javascriptstreamsnodejsstreamsimplify
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