Hélène Martin
CTO at ODK
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHélène Martin is a seasoned technology leader and CTO based in San Diego with 11 years of professional experience building reliable software and leading engineering teams. She combines hands-on full‑stack and mobile development experience with operational expertise—contributing to prominent open-source projects in the ODK ecosystem such as ODK Central, ODK Collect, and Enketo Express where she worked on production-ready fixes, Docker updates, CSRF handling, and Android stability improvements. As a serial CTO across multiple organizations and a former university lecturer, she blends product-minded engineering with mentorship and curriculum design, having taught large introductory CS courses and led outreach programs. Comfortable across Swift, Ruby on Rails, and Python, she brings practical cross-platform fluency and a knack for improving developer workflows and deployment reliability. An advocate for mission-driven software, she focuses on robust, maintainable systems that scale in challenging real-world environments.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
BS, BA, Computer Science, Linguistics, BS, BA, Computer Science, Linguistics at University of Washington
English, French, Spanish
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Github Skills (26)
javascript10
docker10
containerization10
forms10
dockers10
java10
android-developer10
javas10
android10
android-developers10
xforms10
git9
cicd9
html9
css8
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
getodk/collect
Feb 2023 - Mar 2023
ODK Collect is an Android app for filling out forms. It's been used to collect billions of data points in challenging environments around the world. Contribute and make the world a better place! ✨📋✨
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:239 releases, 804 reviews, 5 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Hélène's commits primarily focus on improvements and bug fixes within the ODK Collect Android app. Their contributions include addressing ClassCastExceptions in the ItemsetWidget, and merging master changes into the Spatial/MapHelper file and supporting files. They also worked on reducing the verbosity of logs. Furthermore, they addressed issues relating to the display of geo-point widgets within the form. The contributions demonstrate focus on application stability, performance and feature enhancements.
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getodk/central
Nov 2018 - Jan 2023
ODK Central is a server that is easy to use, very fast, and stuffed with features that make data collection easier. Contribute and make the world a better place! ✨🗄✨
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:138 reviews, 20 commits, 97 PRs in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Hélène primarily focused on updating the Enketo component within the project, updating its Dockerfile to use newer versions of the `enketo-express` images. They updated Enketo to several versions including 2.3.12, 2.5.3, 2.5.6, v4.1.0, v4.1.4, and 5.0.2. This user also updated news information in `docs/news.html`.
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