Martin Foot
Principal Engineer at Duco
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMartin Foot is a Principal Engineer with 16 years of hands-on experience at Duco, where he has evolved from software engineer to technical leader shaping architecture, roadmaps, and operational excellence. He specialises in building performant, scalable and maintainable systems—leading cloud migrations, data centre productionisation, CI pipelines, security compliance, and performance optimisation across the organisation. Known for balancing technical debt with product delivery, he works across teams to reduce entropy and shorten feedback cycles while improving developer productivity and support tooling. Martin also cares deeply about sustainable computing and the environmental impact of systems, bringing that perspective into engineering trade-offs and long-term strategy.
16 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Science, 1st, Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Science, 1st at University of Southampton
Github Skills (98)
dependency-management10
dependabot10
pnpm10
python10
maven-plugin10
mvc10
terraform10
ruby10
jenkins-plugin10
javascript10
rubygems10
dotnet10
sfml10
github-app10
elm10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
mfoo/libyear-maven-plugin
Jan 2023 - Jul 2026
Maven implementation of the libyear dependency freshness measure
Contributions:4 releases, 8 reviews, 355 PRs in 3 years 7 months
mavendependenciesjavalibyearmaven-plugin
mfoo/thanks_ants
May 2015 - Sep 2025
A Rails API for converting "Thanks" and "Ants" to "Thants" as per the TV comedy series Look Around You
Contributions:120 PRs, 146 pushes, 88 branches in 10 years 6 months
rails-api
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