Martín Lahaye
Core Engineer at GNOME Foundation
Paraguay
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Top SchoolMartín Lahaye is a Core Engineer with 16 years of hands-on experience building open-source desktop and education technologies from Paraguay. He has led and shipped features across the GNOME ecosystem—creating utilities like Flatseal and Portfolio, contributing significant fixes and UI improvements to Sugar and Flatpak tooling, and shaping Flathub and GNOME Circle programs. His background blends system-level engineering (GTK, D-Bus, Flatpak, packaging) with product-focused work—designing offline content pipelines for Endless OS and a unified ingestion framework at Sorcero. A longtime community builder, he has chaired GNOME’s board, organized GNOME Latam, mentored students and Google Summer of Code contributors, and routinely represents organizations at FLOSS events. Notably, he pairs deep technical craft with educational impact, having co-created an award-winning open-source teaching robot and led national-scale deployments for One Laptop Per Child.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree, Computer Engineering, Engineer's degree, Computer Engineering at Universidad Católica Nuestra Señora de la AsunciónMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Software and Systems, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Software and Systems at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Spanish, English, Portuguese
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Github Skills (19)
gobject10
develop10
web-application10
python10
user-interface10
flatpak10
ui-design10
uid10
gtk10
front-end-development10
application10
backend9
css8
webservice8
javascript8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
sugarlabs/sugar
Jun 2010 - Mar 2016
Sugar GTK shell
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:123 commits, 45 PRs, 34 pushes in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Martín primarily addressed bug fixes and implemented enhancements within the Sugar GTK shell project. Their contributions focused on fixing UI issues related to the duplication of mesh icons, addressing problems with journal bundle removals, and supporting protected activities. Furthermore, they worked on improving the user interface and fixing typos, showcasing an understanding of the project's user-facing elements. In addition, the user provided the foundation for the support of screen brightness.
linuxgnomesugargtkshell
flathub/org.sugarlabs.Finance
Jan 2020 - Jun 2024
Contributions:3 reviews, 9 PRs, 6 pushes in 4 years 5 months
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