Markus Hofbauer
Markus Hofbauer Markus Hofbauer

Staff Build Engineer & Associate Lecturer

About Me

Markus is the tech lead of the Build & Release Engineering team at Luminar Technologies. Together with his team, they enable other developers to build and release high-quality software products. In his role, he is responsible for the build system, developer tooling, and the CI/CD system. Markus received his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Technical University of Munich where he is still teaching principles of software engineering to students.

Interests
  • Software Engineering
  • Scalable Mono Repositories
  • Developer Productivity
Education
  • Dr.-Ing. in Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Technical University of Munich

  • M.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Technical University of Munich

  • B.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Technical University of Munich

My Background

I am a Staff Build Engineer and Tech Lead of the Build & Release Engineering team at Luminar Technologies working on a monorepo build system, developer tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and its infrastructure. Currently, we are migrating our build system to Bazel.

I am passionate about software engineering and the creation of scalable code, which is maintainable over time. Currently, I am teaching these principles at TUM to undergraduate students by offering the Software Engineering Lab.

I studied Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) for both Bachelor and Master. From 2016 to 2018, I was a Software Engineer at the Objective Software GmbH and Luxoft Inc and worked in cooperation with the BMW Group in the area of Automotive and Autonomous Driving. From 2019 to 2022, I worked at the Chair of Media Technology at TUM as a Research and Teaching Associate in the research group of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Eckehard Steinbach, where I received my Engineering Doctorate in 2022. My research at TUM was focused on video processing, compression, and transmission of multi-camera systems for autonomous and teleoperated driving. In 2022, I was a Senior Software Engineer at CareX.AI working on the software architecture and quality of our monorepository. My research at CareX.AI was focused on camera-based vital signs measurement.

Featured Publications
Recent Publications
(2023). Enabling Acoustic Audience Feedback in Large Virtual Events. In arXiv.
(2023). Large-Scale Collaborative Writing: Technical Challenges and Recommendations. In arXiv.
(2022). Improving Multimodal Object Detection with Individual Sensor Monitoring. In ISM2022.
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