Martin Mohring is a veteran open source technologist and CTO with 17+ years building Linux-focused infrastructure and product ecosystems from Munich. As Co‑Owner and CTO of 5e EcoSystems he drives product development and upstream contributions to projects that became Linux standards, and he has long-standing engineering roles with openSUSE and The Linux Foundation. His hands-on backend work on the widely used Open Build Service demonstrates deep expertise in reproducible package build and ACL design, including adding reader roles and privacy controls. Martin combines systems architecture experience across cloud, virtualization, and embedded platforms with practical leadership—having led platform ports to ARM ABIs and supported hybrid cloud integrations for major ISVs. Colleagues know him for bridging product strategy and low-level engineering while quietly steering standards adoption across industry consortia.
17 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Dipl.-Inform., Computer Science, Dipl.-Inform., Computer Science at Technische Universität München
Build and distribute Linux packages from sources in an automatic, consistent and reproducible way #obs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:212 commits, 15 PRs, 276 comments in 8 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Martin's contributions primarily involve modifications to the build service's backend. The commits focused on adding and modifying flag definitions for access control lists (ACLs) related to project and package access, source access, and binary downloads. Their work included adding support for a "reader" role and associated permissions, creating new flag models for read access and privacy, and instrumenting multiple controllers to enforce these access controls. Furthermore, they addressed issues related to project and package listings with these new features.
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Martin Mohring - Co Owner And CTO at InContinuum Software