About
Who I am
I’m Marco, a backend engineer living in Mallorca. Originally from northern Germany, I moved to Spain a few years ago and haven’t looked back. I like building things that work reliably at scale, and I care a lot about clean architecture and thoughtful system design.
What I do
I’m currently a Software Engineer at Shinefour, where I design and build an event-driven integration platform that unifies REST, webhook, gRPC, and WebSocket-based third-party integrations behind a NATS messaging layer. Day to day, that means working with Go, Kafka, microservices, and figuring out how to make complex systems play nicely together.
My sweet spot is backend and distributed systems, including event-driven architectures, CDC pipelines, API design, and infrastructure with tools like AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, and Docker.
Background
I’ve been writing software professionally since 2014. Over the years I’ve worked across different domains: From maritime logistics (building berth planning systems for container ports) to healthcare tech, and more recently AI-powered backend platforms and integration systems.
My main languages are Go and Java, with TypeScript, JavaScript, and Python in the mix depending on the project. I studied Business Informatics (BS) and E-Health (MA) at Flensburg University of Applied Sciences in Germany.
This site
I write about things I run into while building software: Distributed systems, architecture patterns, Go, and whatever else I find worth sharing. No schedule, no pressure, just notes from the trenches.