Markus Schulte Cloud Architect & Software Engineer

The architect who still ships: I modernize enterprise IT so small teams can deliver safely and often, working agent-first.

Currently IT architect for three teams at Union Investment, hands-on in the team behind the public financial calculators.

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19+years hands-on, 12+ as a freelancer

9M+users on a platform I scaled

60person-days saved by one well-founded architecture decision

30 minurgent deployments, down from days

About me

I modernize enterprise IT landscapes and stay hands-on while doing it. I work agent-first: coding agents write most of the code under my supervision, I keep architecture, scope and quality decisions.

Core Expertise

Enterprise Architecture: Legacy-to-cloud migrations on Azure, AWS and GCP, cloud-native system design, platform engineering
Cloud-Native Design: Self-contained Systems (SCS), microfrontends, event-driven architecture
Technical Leadership: Led teams of 5–9 developers as architect, technical Product Owner and mentor
Backend Engineering: Java (19y), Go (5y), TypeScript – from monoliths to distributed systems
Agentic Coding: Daily work with coding agents (Claude Code): parallel sessions, custom skills, hooks, automated agentic PR review
DevOps & Quality: Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD, contract testing, automated dependency updates, quality gates

Education

Diplom in Computer Science (equivalent to a Master of Science), University of Koblenz-Landau, completed with distinction.

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My values

Proven IT Principles

Clean Code, Clean Architecture and "you build it, you run it" keep an IT landscape healthy in the long term. Paying down technical debt pays off, and the team profits from it.

Effective Collaboration

Software is built by people. Giving the right people the right responsibilities makes an autonomous, motivated team, and such a team is gold.

What clients say

"In his multi-year engagement in the web portals domain, Markus Schulte very successfully applied his outstanding technical expertise and pronounced communicative talent as an architect across several teams. His work was always characterized by professionalism, reliability and high quality. His structured approach and his ability to analyze complex architectures, share them with the team and develop them to the 'next level' have greatly advanced the entire project."

— Direct team colleague, Union Investment 360° feedback (2024)

"Mr. Schulte further advanced the technological environment of the project with his outstanding expertise. Thanks to his very quick comprehension, he […] brought added value to the project at an early stage."

— Sebastian Mancke, tarent solutions GmbH (2017)

My Skillset

Architecture

Self-contained Systems Microfrontends & Web Components Event-driven architecture Legacy-to-cloud migration Architecture Decision Records API design

Cloud & Platform

Azure AWS GCP Terraform AWS CDK CI/CD Docker Kubernetes OpenTelemetry

Languages & Frameworks

Java Quarkus Spring Boot Go TypeScript React Lit Python

Quality & Delivery

Contract testing (Pact) Test automation Playwright SonarQube Renovate Monorepos Clean Code

AI & Agentic Coding

Claude Code Skills & hooks Agentic PR review PyTorch Hugging Face AWS SageMaker Azure Document Intelligence

Leadership

Technical leadership Product Owner Agile coaching Mentoring & workshops Stakeholder management

My Career

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My Services

Cloud Architecture

I design cloud-native systems and migration paths on Azure and AWS: Self-contained Systems, event-driven integration and legacy-to-cloud assessments. Decisions are documented as ADRs and cut into small steps that each reach production on their own.

Azure, AWS, Self-contained Systems, Microfrontends, Event-driven, Cloud migration, ADRs

Hands-on Engineering

19+ years of production code: Java is my mother tongue, Go my choice for cloud-native services, TypeScript and React for the frontend, Python for machine learning.

Java, Quarkus, Spring Boot, Go, TypeScript, React, Python

Agentic Coding

I build software agent-first: coding agents write most of the code, I own goals, architecture, review and the go/no-go. I help teams do the same with shared agent configuration, guardrails and automated agentic PR review, held to the same quality gates as human-written code.

Claude Code, Skills & hooks, MCP, Parallel sessions, Agentic PR review, Shared agent configuration

Technical Leadership

I lead and mentor cross-functional teams of 5–9 developers as architect, technical Product Owner and agile coach, and keep business and IT stakeholders aligned.

Architecture governance, Mentoring, Stakeholder management, Product ownership, Team building, Hiring

DevOps & Platform Engineering

You build it, you run it: CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code, preview environments, quality gates and automated dependency updates that let a small team ship safely and often.

CI/CD, Terraform, AWS CDK, Docker, Renovate, SonarQube, OpenTelemetry, Contract testing

My Contributions

GitHub

Open-source contributions to Renovate, Pact, Microsoft's Azure DevOps tooling and more, plus my own projects

StackOverflow

4,800+ reputation and ~3.3 million people reached with answers on Java, Jenkins and Spring Boot

Let’s connect

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mail@schulte-development.de