Martin Skans
Senior Backend Developer at Finch
Malmo, Sweden
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Top SchoolMartin Skans is a senior backend developer and DevOps-focused engineer with nine years of professional experience building and hardening cloud-native infrastructure and scalable backends. He has driven large-scale migrations and data transfers—including coordinating a 6PB Mapillary transfer at Meta—and converted complex AWS estates into Terraform-managed, cost-optimized platforms. Currently at Finch, he focuses on backend feature development while improving security and scalability, drawing on deep experience with Elasticsearch, container orchestration, GPU clusters, and automation. Known for an analytical mindset and pragmatic tooling, he blends hands-on implementation with infrastructure design and operational ownership. Outside work he’s a Swedish scout, rocker, gamer and hobby linguist, signaling curiosity and team-oriented leadership that often surfaces in cross-disciplinary projects.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Upper Secondary School, Natural Science, Upper Secondary School, Natural Science at Pauliskolan, MalmöMaster, Computer Science, Master, Computer Science at Lund University
English, Swedish, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (31)
uploading10
imagery10
cli9
viewer8
galaxy7
renderer6
riemann6
google-drive-api6
google-docs-api6
ansible-galaxy6
ansible-role5
geospatial5
windows-phone5
javascript4
webgl4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mapillary/ansible-riemann-tools
Feb 2017 - May 2019
Ansible role for the riemann-tools installation
Contributions:30 commits, 26 pushes in 2 years 3 months
network-automationansibleriemanninstallationtools-installation
mapillary/mapillary_windows_phone
Feb 2019 - Jul 2020
The Mapillary Windows Phone app
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 5 months
phonewindowsphone-appwindows-phonemapillary
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