Märt Põder
Board Member at Internet Society
Estonia
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Top SchoolMärt Põder is an experienced technologist and civic leader with 15 years blending software development, communications, and nonprofit governance from Estonia. He currently serves on the boards of Internet Society and Fair Elections Estonia while running his own consultancy, Infoaed OÜ, applying technical and philosophical training to real-world problems. With roots as a software developer dating back to the mid-1990s and a PhD in Philosophy, he uniquely combines systems thinking with ethical and pedagogical perspectives. His background includes public-facing roles—radio host and communications officer—so he excels at translating complex technical and policy issues for diverse audiences. Märt frequently bridges academia, government, and civil society, having managed curriculum projects and hackathons at the University of Tartu. Colleagues know him for investing time in emergent ideas that connect theory to practical impact.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Philosophy, Philosophy at Keio UniversityTallinn School no 21Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Philosophy, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Philosophy at Tartu Ülikool
German, Japanese, English, Finnish, Russian, Estonian
Github Skills (161)
structures10
hugo-theme10
matrix10
netlify10
irc-server10
skype10
rmarkdown10
irc-protocol10
page-builder10
rstudio10
async9
r9
forestry9
irc-bot9
sse9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
boamaod/skype2irc
Jul 2012 - Jan 2017
IRC ⟷ Skype Gateway Bot for Connecting Skype Chats to IRC Channels
Contributions:33 commits, 3 pushes, 5 comments in 4 years 6 months
botchatskypegatewaychannels
infoaed/opendata-portal
Dec 2016 - Apr 2021
Contributions:73 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
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