About

Hi! If you’ve made it this far you probably already know that my name is Marvin. I’m a Software Engineer working on Kubernetes platforms and the wider cloud native ecosystem. I’m a CNCF Ambassador, a public speaker and a maintainer for kcp (a CNCF Sadbox project).

I currently work at ClickHouse as a Cloud Software Engineer. I used to work at Kubermatic, Cerence AI and CANCOM.

I also used to organize Cloud Native Aachen with some amazing folks. If you happen to be in the area, please drop by and say hi to them!

Getting in Touch

If you are looking for a way to contact me, your best bet is to send me an email. A public-facing email inbox that I monitor is $subdomain@$domain.

In case you want your email to be encrypted, feel free to use the OpenPGP key below:

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This Website

They say “Imitation Is the Sincerest Form of Flattery That Mediocrity Can Pay To GreatnessNo, $person probably didn't say that. It's still a good quote.”. In that spirit, this website’s theme is a copy of lawler.io, Eric Lawler’s personal blog. Thankfully, he released the theme for pelican under the MIT license. Since I’m a Hugo user, I created a Hugo version of the theme, released as hugo-theme-eric.

I’m pretty sure he will never read this, but thank you, Eric, for this great theme.