About me

Hello, I am Markus, 31 years old, live in Hamburg with my wife and love to solve problems as well as prevent them.

So I studied physics in Bonn since it's an amazing discipline that tries to understand and describe the nature with a mixture of maths, human assumptions, analogies and experiments.

Realizing that also in physics over the last decades more and more solutions are supported by computational and data science, I studied in that field in Jena.

In 2015 I founded ColorFit to solve a printing industry problem of having a trial & error process before finally printing inks on substrate against all target colors. The solution is written down in a patent (granted in US and IN, pending in EU/IL/CN).

After collecting all these tools I wanted to learn about how the German Mittelstand is solving problems in the triangle between physics, computational and data science by working in a small Data Lab in Dortmund. I have learned one very important thing: Before driving real innovation (creating valuable IP) in a company from outside you need to know more about the inside.

That's why I started to work as a tech lead in a german packaging venture. With a mixture of brave, risk and vision I had the chance to develop a prepress automation full-stack software from scratch. Customers are now getting prepress checks on their artworks and a realistic 3D model within seconds. Additionally the software behind is the fundament that decouples completely the venture and every digital printing converter regarding all prepress requirements around artworks. All that saves a lot of money and time. More important, I had the pleasure to lead and inspire a tech team of talented developers incl. building up a tech culture.

As software engineer and data scientist I am now working as freelancer (working email contact@markusunkel.tech) on innovative projects.

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