Stefan Marx
Senior Director Platform Strategy
Cologne Bonn Region Germany
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Top SchoolStefan Marx is a seasoned technology leader with 13+ years in product and platform strategy, currently shaping acquisition and integration decisions as Senior Director Platform Strategy at Datadog. He combines deep hands-on experience across Java, PHP, Node.js, ERP and APM ecosystems with roles spanning solution architecture, product management and consulting. Known for prioritizing human-centred problem definition, he champions solutions that map tightly to real user needs rather than one-size-fits-all designs. His background includes leading EMEA solution architecture and enablement at AppDynamics and driving product initiatives at Quest, bringing enterprise-scale perspective to platform decisions. Based in the Cologne–Bonn region, he blends technical curiosity with coaching and cross-functional influence to turn complex requirements into validated, pragmatic product outcomes.
13 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
WHSMaster's degree, Informatics, Master's degree, Informatics at Fachhochschule Köln
German, English
Github Skills (15)
profiling9
logging9
datadog8
monitoring8
neovim8
distributed-tracing8
otel8
apm-agent8
neovim-plugin8
appdynamics7
nvim7
go7
observability7
svelte-component6
apache-hadoop3
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
leika/juice-shop
Oct 2023 - Feb 2026
OWASP Juice Shop: Probably the most modern and sophisticated insecure web application
Contributions:31 PRs, 35 pushes, 30 branches in 2 years 4 months
OpenAppdynamicsExtensions/ISDK_Training_Lab
Jul 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:14 commits, 7 pushes, 7 branches in 11 months
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