Mario Behling
CEO at FOSSASIA
Berlin Metropolitan Area Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolMario Behling is a seasoned open source entrepreneur and engineer with 13+ years of hands-on experience building communities, products and events around open technology. As co-founder of FOSSASIA and CEO of OpnTec he has led the launch of 200+ projects and grown a 7,000+ developer community while shipping notable platforms like Eventyay, SUSI.AI and the Pocket Science Lab. Comfortable across full-stack web, DevOps and embedded IoT, his GitHub work spans front-end UX improvements, build/release automation for Android, and hardware integrations for Raspberry Pi. He combines event-design expertise—having organized hundreds of global events—with product leadership that embeds AI to streamline event planning and execution. Educated across Europe and Australia, Mario blends multidisciplinary curiosity with a pragmatic focus on sustainable, community-driven open hardware and software. An unexpected thread through his career is applying open source to hospitality and energy-efficient architecture, as seen in his solar-powered Hotel Xoai venture.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Infocom, Infocom at Universite de LorraineMaster, Master at European-University ViadrinaScienza della Comunicazione, Scienza della Comunicazione at Università degli Studi di MacerataMedia Studies Chinese, Media Studies Chinese at Monash University
English, French, German, Italian
Github Skills (83)
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Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
fossasia/gci14.fossasia.org
Dec 2014 - Feb 2018
FOSSASIA Google Code-In Website 2014/15 http://gci14.fossasia.org
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 79 commits, 12 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Mario primarily contributed to the front-end development of the FOSSASIA GCI website. Their work involved modifying the `index.html` file to incorporate visual and structural changes, including the addition of mentor and student sections with associated images and social media links. They also made adjustments to the website's styling, specifically focusing on the `stylesheet.css` to update the appearance. Moreover, they implemented integrations of photo streams and social media buttons to enhance the website's interactivity.
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fossasia/fossasia.org
Jun 2015 - Feb 2021
FOSSASIA Website https://fossasia.org
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 519 commits, 334 PRs in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Mario's commits indicate a focus on front-end development, specifically with a "site" focus, the commits mainly involve modifications and updates to the website's front-end files. The primary contribution includes extensive changes to a CSS file (likely Bootstrap), which would affect the visual styling and layout. There are also modifications to the HTML structure of a webpage, including title, meta tags and other changes to enhance the site.
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