Ches Martin
Bangkok, Thailand
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Top SchoolChes Martin is an experienced software architect and pragmatic builder with 18 years delivering scalable, fault-tolerant systems across startups and large engineering organizations. Based in Bangkok, he has led cross-functional teams and platform initiatives at Agoda—designing ML/LLM Ops and a web-scale feature store—while regularly stepping into interim CTO and senior consultant roles for early-stage companies. His hands-on background spans Scala, Akka, Spark, Kafka, Cassandra and cloud-native infrastructure, with a strong emphasis on CI/CD, DevOps and continuous delivery. An active open-source contributor, Ches has improved core projects from Devise and Neovim to Feast, showing a knack for both deep refactors and build/CI hygiene. He combines technical leadership with clear stakeholder communication, hiring and culture-building, and is quietly committed to giving back to the OSS community. Colleagues describe him as a “plumber” who fixes messy systems and makes them resilient and maintainable.
18 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
CourseraComputer Engineering, Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of TechnologyDiploma Liberal Arts College Preparatory, Diploma Liberal Arts College Preparatory at Darlington School
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (47)
git10
ruby-rails10
devise10
github10
text-editor10
vimscript10
plugin-development10
testing10
authentication10
user-authentication10
git-repository10
rails10
c1110
editor10
java10
Programming languages (32)
Github contributions (5)
mileszs/ack.vim
Feb 2015 - Feb 2018
Vim plugin for the Perl module / CLI script 'ack'
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:11 releases, 35 commits, 13 PRs in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Ches primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and maintainability of the ack.vim plugin. They implemented features utilizing the Dispatch plugin, including correcting checks, and addressing issues related to list window behavior, mappings, and previewing. Additionally, the user refactored code, improved visibility, and corrected the use of file path searching.
perl-modulevimsiftstatuslineack
derekwyatt/vim-scala
Jan 2015 - Aug 2021
My work on integration of Scala into Vim - not a ton here, but useful for me.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 11 PRs, 10 pushes in 6 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Ches primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of a Scala-based Vim plugin. Their work involved enhancing the integration of Scala code within Vim, including syntax highlighting improvements. Key contributions include refactoring compiler configurations, adding Tagbar support for Scala, and adjusting file type configurations. They also focused on code style, incorporating standard plugin guards and modelines, and addressing user-reported issues.
scalatonvim
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