Lester Martin
Developer Advocate
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolLester Martin is a seasoned developer advocate and data engineering trainer with 12 years focused on data pipelines and lake analytics, now driving developer relations at Starburst. He brings deep hands-on experience across Trino, Iceberg, Hive, Spark, Flink, Kafka, NiFi, NoSQL and classic RDBMSs, and is most productive in Java, Scala, and Python. A lifelong programmer since the TRS-80 era, he pairs practical consulting and classroom experience from Cloudera with a knack for translating complex distributed systems into teachable workflows. Comfortable across DataFrame APIs like Spark, PyStarburst, Ibis and pandas, he excels at making SQL-first architectures accessible at every stage of the data lifecycle. Based in Atlanta, Lester blends technical depth with a long history of mentoring and training, plus a decades-long commitment to family that shapes his collaborative, people-first approach.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
B.B.A., Business Computer Information Systems, B.B.A., Business Computer Information Systems at University of North Texas
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Github Skills (47)
sql-query10
databases10
indexing10
java10
sql10
sql-database10
database10
prestodb9
hadoop9
data-science9
delta-lake9
spark9
data-analytics9
trino9
analytics9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
lestermartin/oss-transform-processing-comparison
Jan 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:21 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
HortonworksUniversity/Essentials
Feb 2016 - Oct 2017
Contributions:53 commits, 52 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 7 months
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