Martin Bbaale
Senior Software Engineer at AirQo
Kampala, Central Region, Uganda
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Top SchoolMartin Bbaale is a Senior Software Engineer based in Kampala with a decade of engineering experience and 5+ years of commercial software delivery across telecommunications, IoT and public health tech. Currently leading core development at AirQo, he combines hands-on engineering with product-facing responsibilities—translating client needs into scalable systems and guiding engineering teams. His background spans embedded systems, Android and VAS implementations to cloud-backed solutions, and includes mentoring 37+ engineers at Andela and designing pan-African accelerator programs for IoT innovators. With an MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon and early work in spectrum analysis and embedded projects, he brings both rigorous academic training and pragmatic field experience. Known jokingly on GitHub as a "computer whisperer," Martin pairs technical depth with a knack for enabling others to ship impactful, locally relevant technology.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon UniversityBachelor of Science in Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering at Makerere University
English
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Github Skills (24)
dashboard10
api10
frontend10
documentation10
logging6
biometrics6
tee6
heroku6
nodejs6
android6
fingerprint6
backend5
sensor4
machine-learning2
zephyr2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
airqo-platform/AirQo-modules
Jan 2021 - Sep 2022
Contains machine learning models
Contributions:10 reviews, 4 PRs, 6 pushes in 1 year 7 months
pythondata-sciencedeep-learningmachine-learningmachine-learning-models
airqo-platform/AirQo-api
Sep 2019 - Feb 2023
This repo contains API definitions for the AirQo platform
Contributions:1642 reviews, 2701 commits, 5978 PRs in 3 years 5 months
apidefinitionshacktoberfest2024
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