Martin Cleaver
Business Mentor & Board Director at Royal City Community Robotics
Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolMartin Cleaver is a seasoned technology entrepreneur and strategic leader with 14 years of experience building and exiting an Atlassian solution firm and founding Blended Perspectives, where he led product and go-to-market strategy through a successful 2022 exit. He combines deep systems and integration expertise—evidenced by hands-on contributions like a JIRA output plugin for the widely used Logstash project—with a long track record of mentoring, board work and community building in knowledge management and DevOps. Based in Guelph, Ontario, he now focuses on guiding robotics and nonprofit initiatives, modernizing outreach and scaling membership while continuing research and mentorship roles. Known for connecting people and systems, he blends technical fluency, business strategy and community orchestration to help organizations turn collaboration tools into measurable value.
14 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
MBA Exchange Student, MBA Exchange Student at University of Toronto - Rotman School of ManagementMSc Computer Software and Systems Design, MSc Computer Software and Systems Design at Newcastle UniversityHigh school, High school at ChancellorsMBA Specialising in Implementation of Knowledge Management Strategies, MBA Specialising in Implementation of Knowledge Management Strategies at Melbourne Business SchoolMBA Unit Unit In Knowledge Management, MBA Unit Unit In Knowledge Management at Degroote School of Business
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Github Skills (20)
ruby10
api-design9
restful-api9
api-rest9
json9
cron9
rest-api9
logging7
macos6
nodejs6
http6
v86
zapier6
javascript6
redis6
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/logstash
Jun 2013 - Jul 2013
Logstash - transport and process your logs, events, or other data
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:10 commits in 2 days
Contributions summary:Martin's commits focus on developing a JIRA output plugin for Logstash, aiming to send structured log data to JIRA. They started with an initial implementation, iteratively refined the code, and addressed issues. The user integrated the `jiralicious` library to simplify JIRA integration, suggesting a shift from lower-level HTTP requests. The final commits indicate a working implementation using the `jiralicious` library.
eventsstreamingloggingetl-frameworklogstash
mrjcleaver/freshbooks-javascript-library
Feb 2012 - Sep 2012
Contributions:8 commits in 7 months
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