Kevin Martin
Director Of Engineering at American Express
Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Martin is a results-driven engineering leader and two-time founder with 12 years of experience building cloud-native platforms and scaling early-stage startups into exits. Currently Director of Engineering at American Express after leading cloud platform and engineering teams at eMed, Buzzer, Bellhop, and Magic Leap, he blends hands-on systems work (Golang, AWS, Terraform) with people-first leadership. Kevin has shipped production infrastructure and improved client libraries as an open-source contributor (notably contributing event-handling fixes to socket.io-client-swift), and he consistently turns strategic visions into reliable, operable systems. He mentors engineers into technical leaders through a culture of empathy, transparency, and high standards, informed by running and selling a startup. Based in Florida, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with pragmatic platform engineering to accelerate product delivery and developer productivity.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Management Information Systems, Bachelor's degree Management Information Systems at Florida International University
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (14)
socket-io10
swift10
ios10
socket10
event-handling10
networking10
socket-io-client10
cpu6
e-mail6
amazon-rds6
adobe6
browser6
cakephp6
database6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
socketio/socket.io-client-swift
Sep 2015 - Sep 2015
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1 PR, 2 comments in 2 days
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily focused on implementing and refining event handling functionalities within the `socket.io-client-swift` repository. They added a single-use handler for events, fixed type declarations, addressed errors related to variable initialization within closures, and improved the event handling logic. The user's work involved modifying the core `SocketIOClient.swift` and `SocketEventHandler.swift` files, leading to a more robust and reliable client library.
NEURS/gulp-transifex
Jul 2014 - Jul 2017
Gulp Transifex
Contributions:1 release, 30 commits, 9 PRs in 2 years 11 months
transifexsassgulp
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