Summary
Martin Schinz is a Staff Platform Engineer in Berlin with 11 years of hands-on experience building backend systems, infrastructure, and scalable microservices across F#, Go, JavaScript and Ruby. He blends a pragmatic functional programming mindset with strong DevOps expertise—terraform, Ansible/SaltStack, Docker and AWS—having cloned and productionized a complex multi-service platform with CI, observability and security in just three weeks. A disciplined TDD and clean-code practitioner who values delivering measurable product value, he also explores distributed systems, Big Data and ML through Coursera and Kaggle projects. Martin is deepening his functional skills in Clojure, Erlang and Haskell and has begun using Rust for custom tooling, reflecting a curiosity-driven approach that pairs language experimentation with practical engineering outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
German, English, French