Linus Marton
Backend Developer at Kisi
Greater Gothenburg Metropolitan Area Sweden
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Top SchoolLinus Marton is a backend developer with 13 years of experience building maintainable web applications and developer tooling from Greater Gothenburg. With a Master's in Software Engineering from Chalmers, he has spent the past decade-plus improving Ruby web frameworks and CLI tooling, contributing notable patches to widely used projects like Hanami and the Pundit authorization library. At Varvet and now Kisi he’s focused on practical backend improvements—database console tooling, SQL adapter robustness, and clean authorization logic—that make developer workflows smoother and more reliable. He combines academic rigor on technical debt (his master’s thesis) with hands-on craftsmanship in open source, often addressing subtle edge cases and tooling ergonomics rather than only headline features. Colleagues value him for shipping crisp, test-covered changes that improve both UX for developers and stability in production.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Software Engineering, Master's degree, Software Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology
Github Skills (23)
web-application10
admin10
testing10
command-line-interface10
databases10
git-repository10
database-administration10
package-repository10
ruby10
hanami10
ruby-application10
sql10
command-line10
database10
cli10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
varvet/pundit
Apr 2018 - Oct 2020
Minimal authorization through OO design and pure Ruby classes
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 76 commits, 62 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Linus primarily contributed to the `pundit` Ruby library, focusing on improving code quality and functionality. Their commits include fixing rubocop issues, removing duplicate assertions, and addressing warnings. They also implemented features such as correctly passing array elements to policy and scope. These changes involved modifying core library files, as well as spec files to reflect these changes.
pure-rubyauthorizationrailsauthenticationruby
hanami/hanami
Jan 2015 - Mar 2015
The web, with simplicity.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 3 PRs, 31 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Linus primarily contributed to the development and enhancement of the command-line interface (CLI) functionality within the Hanami web framework. Their work included adding commands like `dbconsole` for database interaction, incorporating CLI options for database configuration, and refining existing options. The user also addressed a typo and removed unnecessary options, improving the overall usability and efficiency of the framework's CLI tools.
apijavascriptweb-applicationrubyhanami
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