Martin Bähr
Chief Engineer at Coding For Africa
Vienna, Austria
Summary
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SeniorMartin Bähr is a seasoned software engineer and chief engineer who brings over a decade of cross-cultural leadership, mentoring and hands-on development to social-impact technology initiatives. After 15 years running a development services firm in China, he now leads Coding For Africa, training and mentoring students and junior developers in East Africa while delivering open, client-facing software solutions worldwide. His technical breadth spans front-end work with Aurelia and Angular.js and deep back-end experience across Pike, Python, Ruby, PHP, Java, Common Lisp and more, including RESTful APIs, CMSs and multilingual sites. A longtime Free and Open Source advocate and community organizer, he has mentored Google Summer of Code participants, co-edited a book on Pike, and founded forums to strengthen FOSS leadership. Notably, Martin pairs systemic mentoring programs with practical engineering—refactoring legacy systems, implementing mail and chat servers, and shipping production services that double as training platforms.
13 years of coding experience
Esperanto, Dutch, German, EnglishGithub contributions (5)
chanakaDe/sTeam
Apr 2013 - Aug 2013
Contributions:8 commits in 3 months
ekita/sTeam
Apr 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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