Marcus Olsson

Professional summary & achievements

Developer Relations Engineer with 15 years of experience in building cloud-native data applications and developer tools, and educating developer audiences.

  • Built data platforms on Google Cloud Platform for streaming media and Speech AI products, providing high-quality datasets used for analytics and to train and benchmark AI models.
  • Built and led Developer Education programs for two open-source plugin ecosystems.
  • Published 50+ developer-focused articles and made 30+ public speaking appearances at conferences, meetups, and webinars.

Work Experience

Senior Software Engineer

AssemblyAI, Remote

– Present

  • Developing the data layer that processes and catalogs datasets used for training and benchmarking Speech-to-Text models.
  • Built and deployed an inference pipeline for Inverse Text Normalization (ITN) and punctuation for the Universal-2 streaming model.

Technologies: Google Cloud Platform (BigQuery, Dataflow, Composer), Python, Bazel

Senior Developer Experience Engineer

AssemblyAI, Remote

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  • Maintained the official suite of SDKs and reviewed API design documents for Developer Experience.
  • Maintained the developer docs, including building tutorials for Getting started using each SDK, establishing a style guide, and reviewing docs contributions.
  • Oversaw and contributed to the blog post pipeline of educational content.

Technologies: SDK Development, Docusaurus, Python, Go, TypeScript

Senior Developer Advocate

Grafana Labs, Remote

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  • Developed and managed a Developer Relations program from the ground up for the Grafana plugin developer community.
  • Built the developer docs for Grafana plugin development from the ground up.
  • Developed and maintained 10+ plugins including 5 of the top 10 most installed plugins on Grafana Cloud, and what would become the in-app marketplace for installing plugins within Grafana.
  • Led plugin reviews and the experience of publishing plugins to the official plugin catalog.

Technologies: Go, TypeScript, React, Grafana, Prometheus, Hugo

Senior Data Engineer

Bonnier Broadcasting, Stockholm

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  • Developed a data warehouse for a streaming video platform to provide analytics to the rest of the organization.
  • Built data pipelines to prepare unstructured data used to train ML models for churn and recommendations.
  • Developed data anonymization pipelines in anticipation of GDPR.
  • Advocated the use of data within the organization through demos and training sessions.

Technologies: BigQuery, Dataflow, Airflow, Go, Python, Java

Additional Work Experience

DevRel Consultant

Self-employed, Remote

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Technologies: Diátaxis, TypeScript, HTML/CSS, Streamyard, Docusaurus

Data & DevOps Engineer (Consultant)

Citerus, Stockholm

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  • Built a streaming pipeline for ingesting YouTube API resources into Google BigQuery.
  • Led the development of an in-house cloud platform based on Kubernetes and OpenStack to support the expansion to new markets without having to scale the operations team.

Technologies: GCP, BigQuery, Cloud Functions, OpenStack, Terraform, Kubernetes, Go, Python

Site Reliability Engineer

Klarna, Stockholm, Sweden

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  • Developed a platform based on Apache Mesos and VMWare, for reliably running applications with high demands on availability.

Technologies: Apache Mesos, VMware vSphere, Docker, Prometheus, Grafana, Go, Python

Software Development Consultant

Citerus, Stockholm, Sweden

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  • Consulted teams on developing cloud-native microservices in Go.

Technologies: Microservices, Domain-Driven Design, Elasticsearch, Redis, Go, Java

Software Engineer

SAAB Aerosystems and Linköping University, Sweden

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  • Built applications for offline and real-time rendered computer graphics.

Technologies: C++, Python, OpenGL, CUDA, Qt, Image-based lighting, Autodesk Maya

Certifications & Education

Community work

Meetup Organizer

Go Stockholm Meetup Group

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Co-organized 20+ events at companies around the Stockholm area. Organized Sweden’s first Go conference.

Google Developer Expert

Google

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Spoke at meetups and conferences about Google Cloud Platform and Go.

Open-Source Projects

goddd

Sample application for exploring Domain-Driven Design in Go.