Mario Russo
CTO at Labforward
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolMario Russo is a Berlin-based CTO with over a decade of hands-on engineering and leadership experience building large-scale IT and digital lab platforms. He combines software architecture, infrastructure and product leadership—having led technology at Labforward/labfolder since 2015—while remaining an active developer who contributes UI improvements to open-source projects like Perkeep. His background spans enterprise consulting, backend performance tuning, cloud migrations and front-end UX, giving him a rare full-stack perspective on operational reliability and user workflows. Trained as a computer engineer at Georgia Tech and with a side history in metal fabrication and shop instruction, he brings practical craftsmanship and systems thinking to complex technical problems.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BS CMPE Computer Engineering, BS CMPE Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of TechnologyCareer Discovery Program Architecture, Career Discovery Program Architecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Design
English, German
Github Skills (10)
javascript10
user-interface10
web-development10
react10
html9
debugging8
user-experience7
css7
ux-design7
go5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
perkeep/perkeep
Jun 2014 - Jul 2015
Perkeep (née Camlistore) is your personal storage system for life: a way of storing, syncing, sharing, modelling and backing up content.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 30 comments, 8 issues in 1 year
Contributions summary:Mario primarily contributed to the UI of the `perkeep/perkeep` repository, specifically implementing and enhancing features within the debug console and the contextual navigation bar. They added bulk tagging operations within the debug console, including add, delete, set, and clear functionalities. Furthermore, they introduced a "View original" link to the sidebar, improving the user experience. These changes demonstrate a focus on improving the frontend interface and user interactions.
camlistore
dotMR/LugeRacerTimer
Jan 2013 - Mar 2015
Contributions:3 releases, 35 commits, 13 pushes in 2 years 2 months
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