Markus Schulte
Software Lead & Cloud Architecture Consultant at Union Investment
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolMarkus Schulte is a software lead and cloud architecture consultant with 19+ years of hands-on engineering experience and over a decade as a freelancer, specializing in legacy-to-cloud modernization and cloud-native transformations. He architects event-driven, self-contained systems and has driven platform-wide migrations on AWS and Azure, delivering measurable outcomes like 99.9% uptime and deployment times reduced from days to 30 minutes. A polyglot backend engineer (Java, Go, TypeScript) who moved from monoliths to SCS/microservices, he also builds operational excellence through IaC, automated CI/CD and contract testing. Markus has led teams of 5–9 developers and acted as technical product owner across large B2B platforms, translating regulatory and security constraints into pragmatic architectures for banking and enterprise clients. As an entrepreneur, he created a successful Atlassian Bamboo add-on business serving 83 customers worldwide, evidencing product-minded engineering and sustained reliability. Based in Cologne, he combines deep practical delivery experience with a structured, people-focused approach that teams consistently praise for clarity and enjoyability.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Abitur, Abitur at Gymnasium HarenDiplom, Computer Science, Diplom, Computer Science at University of Koblenz and Landau
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Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
SchulteMarkus/spock-geb-demo
Jan 2022 - Jan 2024
Demonstrating Geb in combination with Spock
Contributions:37 PRs, 56 pushes, 32 branches in 2 years 1 month
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SchulteMarkus/SchulteMarkus.github.io
Nov 2021 - Feb 2025
Website for https://schulte-development.de
Contributions:5 PRs, 26 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 3 months
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