Martin Braun is a Co-Founder and seasoned software engineer with 14 years of experience building and scaling AI-focused products and businesses from Bavaria, Germany. He leads NeuroForge and related ventures, translating machine learning potential into economically viable, measurable solutions rather than one-off pilots or isolated tools. Hands-on across the stack, Martin contributes to open source—enhancing RESTful React tooling and improving backend search internals in Hibernate Search—demonstrating fluency in both front-end UX details and low-level search engine integrations. His background includes research and internship experience at Universität Bayreuth and Red Hat JBoss, grounding his entrepreneurial work in solid academic and OSS credentials. He emphasizes pragmatic ROI and long-term scalability, helping companies move past hype to integrated AI strategies. A detail that often goes unnoticed: he pairs product-minded leadership with direct code contributions, shipping pagination UI tweaks as comfortably as refactoring core delete-by-query logic.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Computer Science, Master of Science Computer Science at University of Bayreuth
Hibernate Search: full-text search for domain model
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:17 commits, 16 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Martin primarily contributed to the backend of the Hibernate Search project. Their work involved adding and refactoring features related to deleting data via queries. They also simplified the `DeleteByQuerySupport` class and moved related code to the SPI, indicating a focus on core search engine functionalities and internal API design. These changes suggest an understanding of Lucene query construction and integration within the Hibernate Search framework.
RESTool is an open source UI tool for managing RESTful APIs. It could save you time developing your own internal tools. A live example:
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:7 commits, 7 PRs, 17 comments in 7 days
Contributions summary:Martin focused on implementing pagination functionality within the React-based RESTful API tool. They added initial support for pagination, including both query-based and JSON-body pagination strategies. The user also updated the UI to display pagination state, including total counts, and renamed "json-body" to "body" for clarity. Furthermore, they modified the form popup component to correctly look up data based on data path.
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Martin Braun - Co-Founder at yes and people holdings GmbH