Summary
Manuel Martinez is an engineering manager in San Jose with a decade of cross-disciplinary experience blending software and mechanical engineering, currently leading teams at Airbnb. He has built scalable data platforms and federated search systems at Splunk that operate at trillion-event scale, and has hands-on experience deploying Apache Spark, Java, C++, and Python solutions. Manuel’s background in aerospace and satellite systems—plus AR work for Microsoft HoloLens—gives him a rare systems-level perspective that bridges physical product design and cloud-native data engineering. He also automated CAD workflows and introduced git into structural analysis, demonstrating a knack for improving engineering velocity across domains. Focused on robotics and software development growth, he combines product-facing leadership with deep technical execution across hardware, embedded systems, and large-scale data platforms.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Mechanical Engineering at Cornell University
English, Spanish