Summary
Kurtis Martin is a Lead Member of Technical Staff with over 20 years of software engineering experience and a decade-plus focused on cloud and SaaS platforms, currently driving scale and reliability for the Salesforce Lightning Experience UI. He brings deep systems and backend expertise spanning Java, C/C++, Python, Node.js and front-end frameworks, honed across long tenures at IBM and Salesforce building everything from distributed in-memory caches to UI templating frameworks. Kurtis has repeatedly combined hands-on implementation with automation and test engineering—authoring test frameworks, ChatOps integrations, and deployment automation for large cloud offerings. He’s led geographically distributed teams and served as component and execution lead, blending architecture, coding, and customer-facing problem solving. Based in Durham, NC, he pairs a pragmatic engineering approach with a history of solving performance, security and production reliability issues at scale. An understated strength is his fluency in both native performance work (JNI/C++) and modern web/cloud stacks, enabling cross-cutting impact on product robustness.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University