Gary Martin
Founder Director at RiverTrack Ltd
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolGary Martin is a founder and multidisciplinary technologist with 18 years of experience building software, hardware and UX-focused products from concept to open-source delivery. As Director of RiverTrack he creates hyper-local flood information tools for at-risk communities and earlier built Lightlog wearable light trackers addressing Seasonal Affective Disorder, blending open hardware with design-led thinking. His background spans visualization, 3D modelling, animation and general AI, allowing him to bridge creative interfaces and robust engineering. A long-time contributor to education-focused projects like Sugar Labs and One Laptop Per Child, he brings a commitment to accessible, community-centered tech. Based in Edinburgh, he combines hands-on development with sustained entrepreneurial drive and a knack for turning research-led ideas into practical, user-facing systems. Notably, his work often couples physical devices and real-time data to solve public-interest problems rather than purely commercial ones.
18 years of coding experience
The University of Edinburgh
Github Skills (17)
box2d10
word-processor10
replay9
dnd-tools8
calculator7
displays7
plugin7
input-method6
keyboard6
javascript6
operating-system5
gnome4
gtk3
shell3
graphing3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
garycmartin/lightlogproject
Aug 2013 - Feb 2017
Contributions:3 releases, 327 commits, 17 pushes in 3 years 6 months
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