Martin Ek
Software Engineer at Increase
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolMartin Ek is a pragmatic software engineer with 12 years of experience building robust back-end systems and polished front-end experiences from San Francisco. He led critical payments work at Stripe — including rebuilding synchronous card processing and expanding global card brand support — and now applies that systems-level thinking at Increase. Comfortable across Rust, Node, Python and web UI stacks, Martin has contributed to notable open-source projects like hyper, sequelize, readyset and github3.py, often improving core data handling, reliability and developer ergonomics. He brings a track record of shipping production-critical services, writing internal technical guidance, and surfacing hard-to-test edge cases via thorough testing and tooling. An engineer who bridges databases, networking and UX, he also has an under-the-hood appreciation for language/runtime design demonstrated by contributions to Lisp and RocksDB wrappers.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Visiting student, Computer Science, Visiting student, Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyNorwegian University of Science and Technology
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Github Skills (83)
postgresql10
github10
python10
testing10
rocksdb10
command-line-interface10
databases10
rest-api10
backend10
lisp-interpreter10
rust-lang10
javascript10
discord-js10
front-end-development10
github-api10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
ekmartin/slack-irc
Feb 2015 - Jun 2019
Connects Slack and IRC channels by sending messages back and forth.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 releases, 243 commits, 150 PRs in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Martin implemented core functionality for connecting Slack and IRC channels. They developed an IRC bot using the 'irc-upd' library, including features for joining channels, sending and receiving messages. Additionally, the user set up an API endpoint for sending messages from Slack to IRC. They refactored the code to use the new Slack bot API and added support for channel mappings and multiple bots.
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reactiflux/discord-irc
Oct 2015 - Jun 2019
Connects Discord and IRC channels by sending messages back and forth.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:10 releases, 191 commits, 191 PRs in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Martin implemented the initial integration between Discord and IRC channels, including the core bot functionality. They developed features for parsing messages, handling commands, and converting user mentions and channel references. The user also fixed bugs related to command handling and implemented webhook support. They made significant contributions to the project's core functionality and overall architecture.
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