Michael Bahr
Senior Software Engineer at Sourcegraph
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolMichael Bahr is a senior software engineer based in Berlin with 11 years of experience building scalable cloud-native systems and developer tools. He has shipped full-stack features at Sourcegraph—extending GraphQL APIs, optimizing code insights, and adding editor integrations for a widely used code search and AI platform—and previously worked on serverless offerings at AWS. Comfortable across Go backend work and modern frontend stacks like SvelteKit, he combines pragmatic engineering with a flair for developer experience and performance tuning. A longtime freelancer and blogger on AWS serverless, he publishes a monthly newsletter that surfaces practical cloud patterns and lessons learned from production systems. His background includes applied studies in Germany and an Erasmus exchange in Finland, reflecting both technical depth and international collaboration.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Informatik, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Informatik at Berufsakademie MannheimErasmus+, Business, Erasmus+, Business at Savonia University of Applied Sciences
German, English, French, finnisch, Spanish
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Github Skills (24)
wpgraphql10
go10
wordpress-graphql10
graphql10
sveltekit9
back-end-development9
docker9
front-end-development9
backend9
jenkins9
code-search8
typescript7
database-design7
typescript-types7
co7
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
sourcegraph/sourcegraph-public-snapshot
Feb 2024 - Aug 2024
Code AI platform with Code Search & Cody
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:194 reviews, 83 PRs, 372 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Michael contributed significantly to the Sourcegraph platform by extending the GraphQL API to include feature flag evaluation for users. This involved backend modifications, specifically in Go, as well as frontend updates to the GraphQL schema. They also implemented hotkey functionality for the new web-sveltekit and introduced a button to open files in the editor. Furthermore, the user made improvements to code insights features, including database updates and code optimizations for speed.
sourcegraphcode-generationrepo-type-maindeveloper-toolslsif-enabled
bahrmichael/cognito-wiki
Mar 2021 - Aug 2021
Contributions:2 reviews, 42 commits, 35 PRs in 5 months
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