Summary
Martin Buckley is a seasoned Team Lead and software engineer with 12 years of experience delivering scalable, cloud-native web applications from Buffalo, NY. He has led and architected high-availability systems at the BBC and driven full-stack engineering at Capital One, with deep hands-on expertise in PHP/Symfony, Node.js, AWS, Docker and Kubernetes. Martin’s career blends legacy modernization—migrating monoliths to modular APIs—with data-driven, observable systems using services like SNS/SQS, S3 and Aurora RDS. He excels at guiding cross-functional and distributed teams, establishing standards across offshore partners, and applying DDD and TDD to produce maintainable code. Notably, his background includes building large information-aggregation platforms that power millions of pages, combining pragmatic engineering with strong operational discipline.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, 1st class, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, 1st class at University of Wales, Aberystwyth
English