Markus Ziller
Software Engineer at Helsing
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolMarkus Ziller is a software engineer and engineering leader with 11 years of experience building high-scale, distributed systems and cloud-native architectures from idea to production. He has led cross-functional organizations and delivered consumer-grade content platforms that scaled to millions of monthly users while driving migrations to AWS and extracting microservices to accelerate delivery. At AWS he designed multi-region, petabyte-scale architectures handling 50K+ TPS, published reference architectures and contributed to notable OSS projects like the AWS CDK and Firecracker. Markus combines hands-on engineering with strategic leadership—hiring and scaling teams rapidly during hypergrowth—and has a knack for reducing latency and delivery errors through pragmatic system redesign. Based in Munich with an MSc in Wirtschaftsinformatik from TUM, he often presents at tier-1 conferences and translates distributed-systems theory into measurable production wins.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Wirtschaftsinformatik, Master of Science, Wirtschaftsinformatik at Technische Universität München
English, German
Github Skills (103)
sandbox10
typescript10
cloud-infrastructure10
virtual-machine10
cloud-development-kit10
aws10
infrastructure-as-code10
rest9
swagger-ui9
virtualization9
rust9
swagger9
oas9
openapi9
serverless9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
aws-samples/cloud-gaming-on-ec2-instances
Jun 2021 - Nov 2022
Use Amazon EC2 for cost-efficient cloud gaming with pay-as-you-go pricing
Contributions:2 reviews, 9 commits, 8 PRs in 1 year 5 months
amazon-ec2go
aws-samples/serverless-content-syndication-with-aws-step-functions
Apr 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:13 commits, 10 PRs, 10 pushes in 1 year 9 months
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