Albert Martin
Director Of Engineering at MapQuest
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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SeniorAlbert Martin is a seasoned engineering leader with 17 years of experience building and scaling product-focused teams and SaaS platforms, presently serving as Director of Engineering in Austin. He blends strategic vision with hands-on technical work—having built MVPs, modularized architectures, and led full-stack JavaScript initiatives across Node, Vue, React Native and embedded JS on Bluetooth microcontrollers. Albert has repeatedly launched and grown in-house engineering teams in player-coach roles, driving process improvements, QA adoption, and delivery for both agency clients and enterprise customers. He contributes to open source work such as enhancing a decade-old Zendesk Node client—adding batch operations and robust query handling—demonstrating practical API integration expertise. Known for translating cross-functional business needs into pragmatic backlogs and architectures, he pairs developer mentorship with measurable velocity and quality gains.
17 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
English
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Github Skills (19)
javascript10
zendesk-api10
apidoc10
api-client10
api10
nodejs10
vue9
vuejs29
wrapper8
es6-promise8
parse-platform6
uitextfield6
passwords6
mp46
facebook-graph-api6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
blakmatrix/node-zendesk
Mar 2014 - Apr 2014
A trusted Zendesk API client library for Node.js and the browser, lovingly maintained for over 10 years.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Albert focused on enhancing the functionality of the Zendesk API client library. They implemented features for batch ticket updates and deletions, significantly expanding the library's capabilities. The user also addressed query string handling issues and added a new function for retrieving multiple tickets. These changes show an understanding of the API structure and how to interact with Zendesk services.
api-clientapinode-zendeskclient-libraryjavascript
mybethel/embed
May 2017 - May 2021
Contributions:5 PRs, 10 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years
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