Summary
Martin Laine is a Staff Engineer in London with 15 years of web development experience, known for exceptional front-end craft and broad full-stack fluency across HTML/CSS/JavaScript, SASS, CoffeeScript, Node.js, React and Ruby on Rails. He has progressed through leadership and senior engineering roles at Simply Business, driving front-end strategy and platform delivery, and earlier led migrations to modern architectures and release practices at agencies and product firms. Martin combines hands-on UI expertise with systems thinking—introducing source control, automated deployments and MVC refactors that improved team velocity and maintainability. Comfortable across design-to-deploy workflows, he routinely mentors teams and bridges front-end and back-end work to ship consistent, production-ready experiences. An engineer who favors practical process improvements as much as elegant interfaces, he brings institutional knowledge of scaling web platforms in London’s tech scene.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
English, French