Martin D'allens is a hands-on CTO and co-founder with 14 years of engineering experience who built Liberty Rider into a life-saving mobile service used by 750,000 riders and credited with detecting 7,000 accidents and triggering hundreds of emergency responses. He leads and codes across backend (Node.js, GraphQL, AWS) and native mobile stacks (Kotlin, Swift, MVVM, Rx/Coroutines/Combine), balancing product sprints with developer team management. His background in embedded systems and RF from early startups and contributions to the KiCad open-source project underscore a rare blend of hardware-level pragmatism and full-stack software craftsmanship. Based in Toulouse, he pairs entrepreneurial drive with a user-centered culture focused on reliability and compassion for vulnerable road users.
14 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
CPGE MP, CPGE MP at Lycée Saint Louis
Engineer's degree Electronics & Signal Processing, Engineer's degree Electronics & Signal Processing at ENSEEIHT
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Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:8 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Martin contributed to multiple aspects of the KiCad project, demonstrating skills in both the PCB and schematic design tools. They implemented changes to the board thickness limits, fixed entry selection issues, corrected grid updates in the 3D viewer, and addressed typos. The user also made modifications to the file-io module and the dialog elements within the KiCad source code.
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Martin D'allens - CTO And Co-founder at Liberty Rider