SonarQube Experts in Munich

• Worked as freelance Senior DevOps Consultant on-site for IBM at a European Union Agency, operating in a highly secure, air-gapped environment managing classified systems.
• Led automation and DevOps initiatives for a large-scale OpenShift platform (>400 nodes), driving deployment efficiency, GitOps adoption, and operational automation using Ansible, Python, and Bash while ensuring compliance with security requirements.
• Spearheaded automation of release and deployment workflows in a private cloud environment hosting 400+ OpenShift nodes, significantly improving deployment speed and reliability.
• Migrated existing playbooks, roles, and templates from Ansible Tower to Ansible Automation Platform (AAP), ensuring full compliance with fully-qualified collection names (FQCN) and preparing custom Execution Environments (EE) for containerized automation.
• Implemented GitOps Agent for AAP Controller Configuration as Code, enabling automated synchronization (CRUD) of Ansible Controller objects based on repository-stored configuration definitions using GitHub webhooks.
• Designed and automated complex multi-step operational workflows including environment cleanup, Helix cluster component re-creation, Kafka topic management, and OpenShift object lifecycle management across ~100 environments.
• Achieved a reduction of multi-day manual operations to under a few hours through automation improvements spanning multiple AAP clusters and OpenShift environments.
• Integrated Ansible Automation Platform with Thycotic (Delinea) Secret Server via lookup plugin to enhance secure credential management in automated processes.
• Managed deployment tasks, platform troubleshooting, and Istio network configurations while adhering to stringent EU PSC security and compliance standards.
• Collaborated with infrastructure and application teams to refine deployment procedures, develop naming conventions, and continuously improve automation coverage in an air-gapped, classified environment.

• Transformation Consultant, Release Train Engineer and Program Lead – responsible for the new Way of Working in the Open Gateway Program; optimizing the flow of value by ensuring the ART events and artifacts function correctly, including the Open Gateway Release Train Kanban, Inspect & Adapt (I&A) workshop, ART Sync Meetings, and PI Planning to ensure stakeholder alignment;
• Coaching and guiding the Product Owners, Business Owners, Product Management, Program Managers, Leaders, Tribe Architect
• Coaching the OGW Core Team (cross functional) within the OGW Program and developing optimization measures in their transformation process;
• Facilitating and working actively towards the creation of the Definition of Ready (DoR) and the product Definition of Done (DoD);
• Introducing knowledge sharing workshops and grow the agile engineering practices;
• Hold Team lift-off workshops;
• Help the group to become a team by providing system team coaching and multifunctional learning;
• Facilitate, decision making, feedback loops for learning new skills and practices

Tools: JIRA, Confluence, MS Teams, Miro

• Modernization of a large-scale Java enterprise application*

The project is modernizing a complex enterprise application that has grown over many years. The existing Spring-based legacy system runs on Java 8, OSGi, and Eclipse RCP and is being gradually migrated to a modern, maintainable architecture with Java 25 and Quarkus.

Marcus works on analysis, architecture, refactoring, and implementation. One focus is on untangling historically grown structures and dependencies and on building a clean, sustainable Java and Quarkus technology stack.

Tools & technologies: Java 8, Java 25, Quarkus, Hibernate ORM with Panache, EclipseLink, OSGi, Eclipse RCP, Maven, JUnit, Mockito, REST, JSON, Git, Eclipse IDE, IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate, Jira, Confluence

• Built Azure Kubernetes clusters (AKS) with network policies, security groups, and RBAC
• Terraform-based infrastructure as code for secure, reproducible deployments in the BMW Azure cloud
• Hardened CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, SonarQube, Fortify SSC, and Contrast AST
• Integrated SAP BTP/Kyma and ServiceNow GRC

• Responsible for introducing agile methods within the Interface & Integration Team (2 Scrum Teams)
• Planning and delivering trainings in agile methods
• Facilitating workshops and Scrum events
• Removing impediments
• Increasing sprint performance

• Build and operate an end-to-end MLOps platform on Azure ML and Kubernetes (Kubeflow) for the automated deployment, monitoring, and scaling of forecasting models (including Temporal Fusion Transformer, Informer, Autoformer).
• Implement CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps for the full ML lifecycle – from resource provisioning (Terraform), data transformation (Hugging Face Datasets, Pandas, PyTorch, CUDA cluster) through training and evaluation to model registry and endpoint deployment.
• Integrate MLflow for experiment tracking, model versioning, performance monitoring, and automated registration in the Azure Model Registry.
• Develop and containerize PyTorch training jobs (Azure Notebook, Jupyter Notebooks) for price and time series forecasting (PFC models) with automatic rollout via Azure ML Endpoints and REST/gRPC interfaces, Docker containerization, secured with OAuth 2.0.
• Set up monitoring and alerting mechanisms (Prometheus, MLflow Metrics), log centralization, and cost monitoring.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and model deployment using Terraform, Helm, and Azure CLI; connect to existing market data systems and event pipelines.
• Migrate existing workloads and databases (IONOS → Azure, MongoDB) with integration into central MLOps workflows and internal networks.
• Extend the platform with LLM-based tools (LangChain, LangServe) to integrate GPT-based analysis modules into existing Spring Boot services for market anomaly detection and automated reports.
• Analyze and architect a software solution to process large volumes of data efficiently (>3000 messages/sec.) (market data store).
• Spring Boot / Java 21 container development with RabbitMQ for distributing stock market data via MongoDB (Kubernetes) with fast storage of data in Redis RMaps, deduplication, forwarding messages to Read Model queues, and building Read Models for UI display in MongoDB.
• Integration of RESTHeart to create a REST API for MongoDB.
• Build an Angular frontend to simplify data queries and master data maintenance.
• Agentic coding with remote and local LLMs (Claude Sonnet, Ollama Qwen) and MCP servers.
• Develop Python scripts for transforming and cleaning incoming stock market data (Pandas, scikit-learn).

Leading the end-to-end development of Edge AI-powered smart glasses for visually impaired individuals, aligning product vision with user needs and managing a cross-functional team of data scientists, Android developers, AWS engineers, and hardware specialists.

• Defined product roadmap for Edge AI smart glasses and MVP features through user research, stakeholder interviews, and competitive analysis, ensuring accessibility and real-world usability.
• Developed and validated a PoC for AI-driven cancer cell identification in PET/CT scans, collaborating with medical experts to optimize diagnostic accuracy and clinical relevance.
• Built and scaled a multidisciplinary team of 75+ engineers, interns, and designers across Germany and India, driving cross-border collaboration and iterative prototyping.
• Established strategic partnerships with NGOs, healthcare providers, and advocacy groups to embed inclusivity and patient feedback into product design.
• Drove hands-on hardware-software integration using Raspberry Pi and Jetson Nano of AI models. Initiated and nurtured relationships with suppliers, manufacturers, and ecosystem players to build scalable go-to-market plans.
• Owned critical product decisions, from prototype development to funding strategy, applying a data-informed and impact-driven mindset.
• Fostered a learning-focused culture by facilitating brainstorming sessions and continuous feedback loops between engineering and product.

Achievements:

• Public speaker: Auto.Ai 2025 (Berlin), Wearable technologies 2025 (Munich and Bangalore), MEDICA 2024 (Dusseldorf)
• WMF, Bologna, Italy (June 2024): Only AI startup to be selected from Germany as EBV hero to represent sprhava on global platform
• Medica, Germany (2024): Delivered a speech on AI smart glasses in world's largest Healthcare event.
• Wearable Technologies, Bengaluru, India (Dec 2024): I was a speaker presenting sprhava and its product.
• Venturise Global Challenge (GIM 2025, Bengaluru Palace, Karnataka): sprhava was selected as one of the 16 top startups (ESDM) to present on this global platform
• Wearable Technologies Conference 2025 EUROPE, Munich, Germany (May 2025): Delivered a talk on Edge AI at the Europe's biggest wearable tech event.
• InsurNext Köln, Germany (2025): sprhava was honoured with a booth from Cologne administration.

• It is like a startup within REWE, where we have to build a new forecasting system on Google Cloud Platform from the scratch. Although, officially my role is called MLOps, my actual tasks also include development of data processing pipelines (data engineering) and data scientists tasks such as feature engineering and model trainings.
• GCP: Terraform (tofu), Vertex AI (Kubeflow), Cloud Run, IAM, Google Cloud Storage, BigQuery, Artifact Registry
• Data engineering: Snowflake as the main data warehouse, Terraform, DBT for data model implementations
• CI/CD: GitLab. We have built a CI/CD pipeline that automates deployments of new releases up to production environment
• Development of feature store and data synchronization between environments
• Data science: evaluation of different forecasting models, including CatBoost, Contextual Gamma and Random Forest; implementation of training pipelines using Kubeflow on Vertex AI; scaling and development of an event-driven interface using Kafka as a forecasting service; evaluation of MLFlow for model tracking and model registry
• Implementation of REST API using KeyCloak OAuth2 and OpenID (JWT)
• Monitoring: implementation of dashboards with Grafana, Prometheus, Mimir, Streamlit and Loki to monitor prediction metrics, GCP and Snowflake costs for pipelines, and system metrics
• Development of Copilot Agent Skills

Conducted an independent technical assessment of an AI-enabled software platform, combining AI risk auditing, cybersecurity analysis and software architecture review. Reviewed application components, APIs, data flows, LLM integrations, retrieval-augmented generation, multi-agent orchestration, authentication, tenant isolation, dependency vulnerabilities, AI governance and model lifecycle controls. Authored a technical audit report with a structured risk register, source-code evidence, regulatory references, corrective actions, AI system inventory, risk classification, remediation roadmap and Key Risk Indicators.

Technologies: TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Next.js, Node.js, REST APIs, MongoDB, Redis, AWS serverless services, OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect, LLM APIs, RAG, vector search, multi-agent orchestration, Model Context Protocol, C4 architecture modelling, threat modelling, NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001, ISO/IEC 23894, OWASP guidance, MITRE ATLAS

• Responsible for Openshift/Kubernetes on-prem administration and developer support.
• Developed URP infrastructure automation with Python, Ansible, Kustomize and ArgoCD, Argo Workflow/Events stack.
• Wrote smoke and load tests for URP infrastructure utilizing Python, Kustomize and ApplicationSets.
• Helped to set up and deploy URP infrastructure in Google Cloud, GKE.
• Set up monitoring for URP and ArgoCD stack with Splunk Cloud.
• Performed system administration tasks across RedHat Linux, Kubernetes/Openshift, ArgoCD, GitLab, Bitbucket Enterprise, Kafka and MongoDB.

• RTE/Agile Coach for the introduction of SAFe 6 (Scaled Agile Framework)
• Establishment and implementation of a LACE (Lean-Agile Center of Excellence) for several ARTs
• Use of the tools: Azure DevOps with SCALE, Loop, MS Whiteboard
• Building the ART with 7 teams
• Training Product Owners, e.g. through SAFe POPM training and LearnSnacks
• Conducting the initial PI Planning as a Kickoff Planning Event
• Introduction of a demand process

Project for a leading German email and cloud service provider: As Senior Frontend Developer and Technical Web Architect, I developed an international, multi-tenant white-label consent management layer for multiple brands.

Main tasks:

• Architecture and implementation with Vue 3, TypeScript, and Vite
• Development of automated tests with Vitest and Playwright
• Creation of brand-specific CMP configurations, CSS themes, i18n structures, and vendor settings
• Implementation of playout and initialization logic as well as backend integration
• Technical decision support, project, and code documentation

Impact: Replacement of external CMP solutions with a reusable and long-term maintainable in-house foundation for several international brands and rollouts.

Technologies: Vue 3, TypeScript, Vite, Vitest, Playwright, IAB TCF, Google Additional Consent, i18n, Git, CI/CD.

• Overall responsibility for the project lifecycle from scope definition to completion
• Close collaboration with platform teams, IT leaders, and external service providers
• Application of SAFe principles and structured sprint work
• Creation of a migration roadmap with clear milestones
• Monitoring of the lifecycle: onboarding, repository migration, replication of permissions, and system tests
• Visualization of the architecture with PlantUML and Gliffy as well as documentation in Confluence
• Regular status reports and running knowledge transfer sessions

Project: Tax Exemption Order Application

The client has an existing application for creating and maintaining tax exemption orders for end customers; design and implementation of a comparable application for internal employees.

• Design and implementation of microservices and the UI for the business area "tax exemption orders" using Domain Driven Design as well as Spring Boot and Angular.
• Implementation of reactive, non-reactive, and asynchronous APIs (Spring REST, WebFlux, GraphQL).
• Development of the Angular application, including state management using Signals, RxJS Observables, and subscriptions.
• Securing the API and the application using OAuth2, JWT, and OpenID Connect.
• Configuration and setup of CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins.
• Collaboration with cross-functional teams and conducting code reviews.

Environment: Java, Spring Boot, Angular 18 & 19 (standalone, signals), RxJs, Bootstrap CSS, Vitesting, OpenShift, Istio, microservices, Kafka, Dynatrace, Jenkins, GitLab, Graylog, Sonar, Oauth2, OracleDB