Johnny Martin
Head Of Business Development at hotdata.dev
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohnny Martin is a Silicon Valley technology executive and founder with 11 years of recent industry experience and a decades-deep track record of building teams, products, and profitable businesses across startups and enterprises. He blends Ph.D.-level computer science rigor with hands-on engineering—having served as a software architect at PayPal and Adobe, founded and bootstrapped revenue-generating ventures, and led turnaround efforts as a White House Presidential Innovation Fellow. Johnny specializes in digital payments, Bitcoin and the Lightning Network, data-driven APIs, and secure, auditable systems, and has repeatedly shipped DevOps, front-end, and backend platforms that enabled notable exits and fraud loss prevention. He coaches hundreds of developers and mentors executives, pairing technical depth with commercial outcomes like a $113M acquisition and restoring a government program from multimillion-dollar losses to cost recoverability. Based in San Jose, he still writes code while leading business development at Hotdata, combining product intuition with pragmatic go-to-market execution.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Mathematics and Computer Science at California State College, California PAPh.D., Computer Science, Ph.D., Computer Science at University of Minnesota
Github Skills (38)
window-object9
layer29
js9
postmessage8
bitcoin8
iframe8
spark7
react6
aws-s36
nodejs6
aws6
aws-amplify5
storage5
react-native5
crypto5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
coreymartin/vscode-predawn-twilight
Jun 2022 - Feb 2025
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push in 2 years 9 months
lightsparkdev/js-sdk
Apr 2023 - Apr 2026
Lightspark JS SDK
Contributions:109 reviews, 372 PRs, 912 pushes in 3 years 1 month
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