Martin Lovell
Principal Full Stack Engineer at Yale University
West Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMartin Lovell is a Principal Full Stack Engineer with over 20 years designing and shipping web, mobile, and enterprise applications, currently leading small agile teams at Yale University Library. He blends deep hands-on expertise across Java, Python, JavaScript, Ruby, and C# with modern DevOps tooling (Docker, Terraform, Jenkins, AWS) to build and maintain complex digital library, metadata, and fulfillment systems. Known for following projects through their full lifecycle, he pairs close collaboration with users and product owners with pragmatic architecture and iterative delivery. His background spans greenfield Java/Spring and React systems, legacy modernization, IIIF/digital-objects integrations, and accessible PDF generation—skills honed across both startups and large institutional environments. Based in West Hartford, CT, he is an advocate of Software Craftsmanship and brings a rare combination of long-term domain knowledge in library systems and practical cloud/automation experience.
8 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BA Math/Computer Science, BA Math/Computer Science at Wesleyan UniversitySecondary Teaching Certificate Education, Secondary Teaching Certificate Education at University of Hartford
Github Skills (44)
viewer10
xslt10
pdf10
iiif10
archives10
audio10
openseadragon10
configurations10
pii9
solr9
advanced-search9
volume-rendering9
3d9
jruby9
creative-commons8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
yalelibrary/yul-dc-pdf-gen
Nov 2020 - Dec 2022
Contributions:5 releases, 4 reviews, 22 PRs in 2 years 1 month
yalelibrary/constellations-data
Sep 2024 - Mar 2025
Data for the Constellations Project
Contributions:14 reviews, 122 PRs, 151 pushes in 6 months
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