Summary
Martin Gillespie is a pragmatic CTO and founder based in Montevideo who transforms product ideas into production-ready software, hardware, and design solutions, leveraging AI and data to automate and scale businesses. With roughly four years of focused leadership experience and earlier hands-on mobile development, he has led teams of 25+ engineers and guided complex, multidisciplinary projects from discovery to delivery. His dual background in computer engineering and software engineering, plus research in Deep Active SLAM, gives him a rare blend of academic rigor and product-oriented systems thinking. As a product discovery expert he excels at reconciling vision with technical feasibility, and his trademark simplicity-first philosophy drives efficient, elegant architectures. Currently steering Ataraxy while serving as CTO of Sidetool and senior consultant at Kleva, he balances startup founding grit with consultative delivery across clients.
3 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
First Certificate Exam (FCE), First Certificate Exam (FCE) at University of Cambridge
Ingeniería en computación, Ingeniería en computación at Universidad de la República
Spanish, English