Martin Norbury
Senior Software Engineer at CloudQuery
York, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMartin Norbury is a Senior Software Engineer with a PhD in Astrophysics and over 25 years of professional experience, currently building cloud-native back-end systems with expertise in Java, Python and Go. He combines a scientist’s rigor with practical engineering—championing test-driven development, clean code and measurable optimisations across distributed systems and serverless AWS architectures. Martin has delivered cost-allocation and automation features for Kubernetes workloads, led mission-critical telescope control software, and recently extended the popular CloudQuery ELT framework to support AWS EMR resources. Comfortable both designing ground-up systems and refactoring legacy platforms, he also mentors teams and introduces CI and observability practices that reduce operational risk. Based in York, England, he brings a rare mix of academic depth and hands-on production experience in cloud, containers and data integration.
13 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Astrophysics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Astrophysics at The University of ManchesterMaster of Science (MS) Astrophysics, Master of Science (MS) Astrophysics at University of Birmingham
English
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Github Skills (18)
asynchronous10
unit-testing10
java10
junit10
go10
aws10
amazon-emr10
data-engineering9
etl9
sql8
kubernetes-pods6
python6
multithreading6
kubernetes6
oop6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
cloudquery/cloudquery
May 2023 - Jan 2025
The developer first cloud governance platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:93 reviews, 67 PRs, 161 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Martin contributed to adding new resources for Amazon EMR (Elastic MapReduce), specifically focusing on studio and studio session mapping. They implemented the necessary functions to fetch and resolve these resources, including API calls and data transformations. The changes involved modifying existing code in the AWS source plugin to include the new resources, ensuring compatibility and data retrieval. This work expanded the platform's support for AWS EMR services.
gcpetl-frameworkintegration-platformcompliancedata-warehouse
mnorbury/grpc-example
Jan 2020 - May 2022
A simple grpc example project
Contributions:2 PRs, 9 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 4 months
grpcgrpc-examplegrpc-javaproto
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