Martin Ahrer
Senior Software Engineer Architect at Martin Ahrer - thinking outside the box
Linz, Upper Austria
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Top SchoolMartin Ahrer is a Senior Software Engineer and Architect with over two decades of hands-on experience delivering Java/Spring Boot systems and automating end-to-end development pipelines. He blends deep architecture and DevOps expertise—Docker, Nomad, Kubernetes, GitLab CI, Gradle—and a pragmatic focus on SOLID, clean code and clean architecture to make systems maintainable and scalable. Martin has led migrations (Maven→Gradle), rebuilt CI/CD ecosystems, and implemented Nomad clusters that provide instant feature-branch runtime environments to accelerate feedback loops. As a university lecturer and founder of the Enterprise Java User Group Austria, he pairs technical leadership with community building and mentoring, helping teams adopt test-driven development and production-quality engineering practices. His career shows a pattern of modernizing fragmented toolchains and turning blueprints into repeatable, automated delivery platforms that reduce cognitive load for developers.
12 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Dipl. Ing. (FH), Software Engineering, Ausgezeichneter Erfolg, Dipl. Ing. (FH), Software Engineering, Ausgezeichneter Erfolg at University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria - Hagenberg CampusElectrical and Electronics Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at HTL Steyr
English, German, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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7answers
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Github Skills (98)
junit-test10
testing10
databases10
junit10
docker-container10
gradle-plugin10
test-container10
integration-testing10
docker-compose10
database10
test-automation10
jvm10
java10
docker10
selenium10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
MartinAhrer/continuousdelivery
Mar 2016 - Jan 2023
A simple project for demonstrating continuous delivery and docker
Contributions:54 commits, 10 PRs, 133 pushes in 6 years 11 months
continuous-deliverydocker
SoftwareCraftsman/docker-atlassian-bitbucket-base
Feb 2016 - Oct 2017
Contributions:3 PRs, 63 pushes, 19 branches in 1 year 8 months
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