Martin Braun is a computer scientist and entrepreneur with 13 years of hands-on software engineering experience based in Germany. As Co-Founder and CEO of neuroforgede and an alumnus of the M.Sc. Computer Science program at the University of Bayreuth, he blends product leadership with deep technical practice. An active open-source contributor, he has made core backend improvements to the widely used Hibernate Search project—simplifying DeleteByQuery support and working at the Lucene-query integration layer—while also shipping front-end features like pagination in a React-based REST tool. That mix of low-level search engine internals and developer-facing UI work reflects a pragmatic full-stack skillset and a knack for turning complex APIs into usable tools.
Hibernate Search: full-text search for domain model
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Back-end Developer
Contributions:17 commits, 16 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Martin primarily contributed to the backend of the Hibernate Search project. Their work involved adding and refactoring features related to deleting data via queries. They also simplified the `DeleteByQuerySupport` class and moved related code to the SPI, indicating a focus on core search engine functionalities and internal API design. These changes suggest an understanding of Lucene query construction and integration within the Hibernate Search framework.
RESTool is an open source UI tool for managing RESTful APIs. It could save you time developing your own internal tools. A live example:
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Front-end Developer
Contributions:7 commits, 7 PRs, 17 comments in 7 days
Contributions summary:Martin focused on implementing pagination functionality within the React-based RESTful API tool. They added initial support for pagination, including both query-based and JSON-body pagination strategies. The user also updated the UI to display pagination state, including total counts, and renamed "json-body" to "body" for clarity. Furthermore, they modified the form popup component to correctly look up data based on data path.
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