Derek Martin
Senior Front-end Engineer at Contextual AI
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolDerek Martin is a Senior Front-end Engineer with 11 years of experience based in Old Toronto, specializing in building performant, user-focused web applications and leading engineering teams through complex migrations and modernizations. He has driven large-scale upgrades (notably a 20k+ line Vue 2→Vue 3 migration), cut bundle size by a third, and improved core web vitals substantially while introducing TypeScript, Vite, and testing-first practices to improve developer experience. Derek blends hands-on implementation—architecting serverless messaging and cross-platform Electron tools—with people-focused leadership that raised team throughput ~60% and reduced PR latency to under 24 hours. He champions documentation and process (templated Notion workflows) to remove knowledge silos and foster continuous learning, and is comfortable shipping both design-forward dashboards and backend-integrated front-end systems.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Specialized Honours Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Digital Media, Specialized Honours Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Digital Media at York University
Github Skills (58)
column-sorting10
apache9
plugin9
visualization9
charting9
echarts9
canvas9
charts9
svg9
vuejs29
data-visualization9
browser8
javascript8
snap7
data-viz7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
DerekNMartin/DerekNMartin.github.io
Jan 2015 - Dec 2024
Contributions:6 PRs, 155 pushes, 3 branches in 10 years
react
DerekNMartin/cards-against-vue
May 2018 - Nov 2022
Making Cards Against Humanity with VueJS
Contributions:15 commits, 4 PRs, 7 pushes in 4 years 7 months
cards-against-humanityvuejs2vuehumanityvuejs
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