Martin Grünbaum
Director Of Engineering at Kaima
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
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Top SchoolMartin Grünbaum is a pragmatic Director of Engineering with 15+ years building and scaling software teams and systems, currently leading engineering at Kaima after directing technical strategy and culture at startups like Lun and Pleo. He’s a generalist who thrives on solving complex architectural problems, bootstrapping multi-part tech stacks, and translating business needs into pragmatic technical direction while still shipping production code. His background spans systems architecture, data pipelines, DevOps and product-focused engineering leadership—having driven initiatives from dbt-based analytics and CDC pipelines to company-wide stewardship of software ownership. Comfortable in new stacks and fluent in infrastructure trends like Kubernetes, IaC, CI/CD and Go, he combines hands-on craftsmanship with mentoring and organizational design. Outside of work he brings an unusual mix of hobbies—DJing, karate, massage therapy and competitive board games—that inform his collaborative, human-centered leadership style.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science at Københavns Universitet - University of CopenhagenBachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science at DIKUHTX, HTX at IT College
Danish, English
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Github Skills (143)
react-redux10
testing10
test-framework10
form-validation10
property-testing10
assert10
runner10
redux-store10
async10
ava10
cli10
redux-form10
tdd10
nodejs10
unit-testing10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
Awesomeware/goblin-wrangler
Apr 2020 - Jul 2022
Live wrangling of Goblins, using Elixirs.
Contributions:75 commits, 23 PRs, 63 pushes in 2 years 2 months
pythonelixirpathfinderwranglinggoblins
rehfeldmedical/panacea
Nov 2018 - Jan 2019
An Elixir + Docker-Compose test
Contributions:25 PRs, 208 pushes, 29 branches in 2 months
elixirdockercomposedocker-elixirdocker-compose
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