Martin Walker
Senior Software Engineer at Packa
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolMartin Walker is a Senior Software Engineer based in Berlin with eight years of experience building thoughtful front-end experiences and content-driven web applications. He excels at translating clear explanations and design intent into polished UIs, with practical expertise in React (Gatsby), Vanilla JS, styled-components, and Contentful integrations. At Contentful he contributed to both marketing sites and the Contentful Apps marketplace—implementing UI features, content type tooling, and programmatic migrations—then continued to drive product development at Packa/Packmatic. Martin combines product-minded front-end craftsmanship with experience running meetups and community programs across multiple cities, a hint of his strength in communication and developer advocacy. He pairs an entrepreneurial management background from UMN with hands-on open-source contributions, favoring clarity, usability, and maintainable front-end architecture.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies at CIEE Global Institute - BerlinEntreprenurial Management Finance, Entreprenurial Management Finance at UMN Carlson School of Management
English, German
Github Skills (8)
contentful10
javascript10
react10
gatsby10
front-end-development9
typescript4
typescripts4
typescript-types4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
contentful/apps
Feb 2021 - Nov 2022
Apps on the Contentful Marketplace and resources to build them
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:18 reviews, 32 commits, 30 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Martin primarily focused on implementing features and making improvements to the "apps/gatsby" directory, suggesting work on the front-end or full-stack aspects of the project. Contributions included developing content type selections, defining entry slugs, and modifying the user interface with new UI components. These changes involved both modifying existing configuration files and refactoring the user interface for the Gatsby app.
cloudinaryimage-focal-pointsmartlingfrontifycapistrano
martin3walker/wistia-videos
Feb 2021 - Jul 2022
Contentful app for getting wistia videos within a field
Contributions:1 review, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
contentfulreactcontentful-appvideoswistia
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