Marvin Schenkel
Tech Lead Music Assistant at Open Home Foundation
Zeist, Utrecht, Netherlands
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Top SchoolMarvin Schenkel is a tech lead and seasoned data engineer with over a decade of experience designing and delivering cloud-native data platforms and analytics solutions across Europe and Australia. He blends hands-on engineering with team leadership—having led platform work at Ahold Delhaize and designed self-service, microservices-based data platforms at Nationale-Nederlanden—to make complex data products repeatable and self-service. Comfortable across the Azure and AWS stacks, his specialties include data platform architecture, CI/CD, observability (OpenTelemetry/App Insights) and config-as-code deployments that scale to billions of rows. Beyond enterprise projects, Marvin contributes to open-source music infrastructure—adding YouTube Music support and library features to the popular Music Assistant server—reflecting a long-standing maker mentality that started with DOS commands on his dad’s lap. Based in Zeist, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a passion for home automation and clean, maintainable data solutions.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Information and Communication Technology (B ICT) (cum laude) Information Technology, Bachelor of Information and Communication Technology (B ICT) (cum laude) Information Technology at HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht (Hogeschool Utrecht)
Dutch, English, German
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Github Skills (11)
api10
python10
apidoc10
streaming10
data-parsing9
azure-databricks6
apache-spark6
databricks6
dynamic6
linkedin-api6
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
music-assistant/server
Jun 2022 - Aug 2022
Music Assistant is a free, opensource Media library manager that connects to your streaming services and a wide range of connected speakers. The server is the beating heart, the core of Music Assistant and must run on an always-on device like a Raspberry Pi, a NAS or an Intel NUC or alike.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 46 reviews, 60 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Marvin implemented a new music provider (YTMusic) for the Music Assistant server, enabling users to query albums and tracks from Youtube Music. Their work involved creating the necessary classes and methods for retrieving, parsing, and streaming media content from the YouTube Music API. Furthermore, the user added support for URL parsing to playback, generated valid stream URLs, and added the ability to search for artists and albums. The user also added the library artist and library album feature.
python-librarypythonaudioplaybackorchestrate
MarvinSchenkel/HomeyKodi
Mar 2016 - Oct 2019
Driver and app for Homey to support Kodi
Contributions:1 release, 59 commits, 12 PRs in 3 years 7 months
kodi
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