Martin Kirchgessner
Developer at Software Heritage
Grenoble, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
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Top SchoolMartin Kirchgessner is a seasoned developer with 13 years of experience who blends pragmatic engineering with a researcher's rigor, currently contributing to Software Heritage from Grenoble. He holds a doctorate in data mining and built scalable, distributed algorithms to mine hundreds of millions of transactional records, a background that informs his work on large-scale data plumbing "with glitter" dating back to Visual Basic 6. As former CTO and R&D engineer at RegMind, he has moved between hands-on full‑stack delivery and technical leadership, shipping production systems and research prototypes. He co-founded a real-time 3D services company early in his career, showing an entrepreneurial streak alongside deep systems and web development skills. Quietly, his career bridges academia and industry: he implements parallel and distributed solutions while keeping an eye on product usability and operational robustness.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctorat, Data mining, Doctorat, Data mining at Université Grenoble AlpesDiplôme d'ingénieur, Ingéniérie des systèmes d'information, Diplôme d'ingénieur, Ingéniérie des systèmes d'information at Grenoble INP - Ensimag
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Github Skills (91)
programming-language10
python10
http10
webradio10
automation10
backend10
collaboration10
streaming10
music10
cli10
french10
scripting10
file-generation10
musicbrainz10
morse-code10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
RadioCampusFrance/seriously-simple-podcasting-campus-edition
Aug 2016 - Sep 2025
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 2 months
martinkirch/blo
May 2020 - Oct 2025
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Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 5 months
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