Martin Loitzl
Senior Software Engineer at Swiss Life
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolMartin Loitzl is a Senior Software Engineer based in Zurich with over a decade of experience building and coaching teams around Microsoft 365 and SharePoint solutions across on-prem and cloud landscapes. He combines hands-on engineering—contributing backend improvements and taxonomy features to the popular PnP Core SDK—with leadership experience as an architect, trainer and Agile/SAFe coach at firms like Swisscom and LiveTiles. Martin is skilled in Identity and hybrid architectures and has a track record of improving performance and test coverage in open-source projects. He excels at translating complex enterprise requirements into maintainable M365 integrations while upskilling teams through training and facilitation. A background in information visualization and biomedical engineering gives him an analytical, research-informed approach to designing user-centered solutions.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Information Systems, Biomedical Engineering, Master of Science, Information Systems, Biomedical Engineering at Technische Universität GrazMechanical engineering, Mechanical engineering at HTBLA Steyr
Github Skills (7)
net10
asp-net10
dotnet10
sharepoint10
taxonomy10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
pnp/pnpcore
Sep 2021 - Dec 2022
The PnP Core SDK is a modern .NET SDK designed to work for Microsoft 365. It provides a unified object model for working with SharePoint Online and Teams which is agnostic to the underlying API's being called
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 20 commits, 12 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Martin primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the PnP Core SDK. Their work involved modifying CSOM requests and related classes, specifically for retrieving terms using custom properties, and updating calls to use GetById instead of GetByName to improve performance. They also added a childitem query, and improved the process for handling the response of the GetTermsByCustomProperty, and included associated unit tests. The commits reveal a strong focus on improving the taxonomy features of the SDK.
agnosticapi-sdotnet5microsoftdotnet7
mloitzl/powershell
Jun 2021 - Mar 2025
PnP PowerShell
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
powershellpnppowershell-modulespnp-powershell
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