Joel Martinez
Chief Technology Officer at Spot2Nite
Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico
Summary
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Top SchoolJoel Martinez is a seasoned technology leader and CTO based in Ciudad del Carmen with 16 years of experience evolving from systems analyst and consultant to founder-minded engineering executive. He has led full-stack software architecture and delivery across consulting, enterprise, and startup contexts, and currently steers technical strategy at Spot2Nite. Joel pairs hands-on development—demonstrated by localization contributions to the open-source Fulcrum agile planning tool—with product-focused leadership, building systems that support globalized user experiences. His background includes long-term independent engineering work and early roles at PEMEX and EKI, giving him a pragmatic blend of corporate and entrepreneurial perspectives. Trained at Tecnológico de Monterrey in computer science and engineering, he brings a solid technical foundation plus a track record of turning operational knowledge into scalable software solutions.
16 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
ISC, Computer Science, ISC, Computer Science at Tecnológico de Monterrey
English, Spanish
Github Skills (10)
activerecord10
rspec10
rails10
ruby-on-rails10
user-interface8
database-migration8
database-migrations8
erb7
html7
css5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
fulcrum-agile/fulcrum
May 2012 - May 2012
An agile project planning tool
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer (Localization Specialist)
Full-stack Developer (Localization Specialist)Contributions:16 commits in 3 days
Contributions summary:Joel primarily focused on implementing localization support within the agile project planning tool. Their contributions included adding a locale field to the user registration form, creating a database migration to store user locales, and writing tests to ensure locale settings function correctly. They also integrated translations for application components, such as flash messages, project navigation, and title bars. Furthermore, they added localized content for board columns.
agile
jgarcia/artaround-web
Jun 2016 - Mar 2018
Contributions:33 pushes, 79 branches, 1 tag in 1 year 8 months
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