Christian Barra
Founder at Python Software Foundation
Earth, Texas, Germany
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Top SchoolChristian Barra is a founder and senior software engineer with 12 years of experience building production systems that span agriculture, autonomous vehicles, retail, and enterprise AI. He co-founded zerobang to take companies from 0 to 1 in AI and now runs dearmachines, focusing on delivering the last mile of software. His hands-on background includes leading backend work at Infarm, contributing to JupyterHub’s backend/ORM, and driving event-sourced microservices and ML prototypes at MADE.COM. A Python Software Foundation Fellow, he combines operational rigor (TDD/DevOps, event sourcing) with applied ML and embedded/telemetry projects for customers like Bayer, Wayfair, and Volkswagen’s CARIAD. Beyond product work he runs global free coding workshops, helped scale major European conferences, and once raised funds for Doctors Without Borders—signals of his community-first leadership and practical impact orientation.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Statistics, Statistics at Università degli Studi di Padova
Italian, English
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Github Skills (7)
object-mapping10
orm10
sqlalchemy10
jupyterhub10
python10
database-design9
pep8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
jupyterhub/jupyterhub
Dec 2016 - Apr 2017
Multi-user server for Jupyter notebooks
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:37 commits, 6 PRs, 66 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Christian primarily contributed to the backend logic and database interactions within the JupyterHub project. Their work focused on modifying the `orm.py` file, which suggests involvement in the object-relational mapping and database schema. The commits indicate the addition of new classes and relationships, along with fixes and improvements to existing code. The user also addressed PEP8 compliance issues, demonstrating a focus on code quality and maintainability.
pythonjupyter-notebooknotebooksjupytermulti-user
barrachri/aioredis
Dec 2017 - Dec 2020
asyncio (PEP 3156) Redis support
Contributions:8 PRs, 16 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years
python310pythonredisasynciopep
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