Thorsten Merten
Software Engineering Manager at Canonical
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolThorsten Merten is a Software Engineering Manager at Canonical with 12 years of experience building and leading teams across research, startups, and enterprise product development. He combines deep academic training (Dr. rer. nat. in Math & CS) and applied research in linked data, software mining and visualization with hands-on engineering in Python and JavaScript. As co-founder and CTO of sustainabill he translated sustainability and supply-chain transparency requirements into a cloud platform, demonstrating product-led technical leadership and go-to-market experience. He thrives at the intersection of research and product delivery, having led projects for universities, Fraunhofer, and industry partners while supervising many student theses and teaching software engineering. Based in Cologne, he’s starting a new MAAS-family product at Canonical, bringing pragmatic systems thinking and a knack for turning complex data problems into usable, production-grade services.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied SciencesDr. rer. nat., Mathematics and Computer Science, Dr. rer. nat., Mathematics and Computer Science at Heidelberg UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at York University
English, German, Spanish
Github Skills (162)
maas10
packer-template10
redmine10
django9
pcloud9
react9
greenhouse9
bare-metal8
golang8
data-center8
twisted8
private-cloud8
gdrive8
go8
nas8
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
canonical/maas-discourse-theme
Mar 2024 - Jul 2025
MAAS Discourse Theme
Contributions:3 reviews, 2 PRs, 1 push in 1 year 3 months
maas
tmerten/maas-ui
Mar 2023 - Feb 2025
The UI for MAAS (metal-as-a-service)
Contributions:5 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 11 months
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