Martin Kysel
Senior Engineering Manager at XMTP Labs
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolMartin Kysel is a senior engineering manager and hands-on staff software engineer based in Boston with over a decade of experience building distributed systems and leading engineering teams across startups and scale-ups. He has progressed from DevOps and software engineering roles into technical leadership at companies like NuoDB, Materialize, and XMTP Labs, blending deep systems knowledge with people management. Known for guiding engineering orgs through architecture and delivery transitions, he brings practical experience shipping database and real-time messaging infrastructure. Martin's academic background in cognitive science and media informatics gives him a user-centered perspective on complex systems design. Colleagues value his mix of technical rigor and mentorship, and he often moves fluidly between coding, architecture, and organizational strategy.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) with hons Cognitive Science, Master of Science (MSc) with hons Cognitive Science at University of Vienna
English, German, Slovak, Czech, Spanish
Github Skills (145)
postgresql10
messaging10
data-warehouse10
message-queue10
stream-processing10
streaming10
cqrs10
rabbitmq10
stream10
sql10
rust10
database10
nuodb10
busybox10
mysql10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
mkysel/materialize
Oct 2021 - Jan 2022
Materialize simplifies application development with streaming data. Incrementally-updated materialized views - in PostgreSQL and in real time. Materialize is powered by Timely Dataflow.
Contributions:3 PRs, 147 pushes, 54 branches in 2 months
materialized-viewstimelypostgresql-databasestreaming-datastreaming
Nomadic-Workplace/kiss-docker-rust
Jan 2023 - Jun 2024
An Extremely Simple Docker Wrapper in Rust
Contributions:1 review, 7 PRs, 25 pushes in 1 year 4 months
buildkitrustdockerduplicatesrust-language
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