Martin Walsh
Chief Engineer at SiteMinder
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolMartin Walsh is a seasoned Chief Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience driving SiteMinder’s evolution from monolithic systems to cloud-native microservices. He has led large-scale architecture projects—database sharding into 256 shards, event sourcing with MySQL replication, and containerized deployments using Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform and Helm—while operating production streaming with AWS Kinesis and SQS. A pragmatic technical leader, he blends deep backend skills (Spring Boot, Node.js) with research-driven problem solving rooted in his engineering degree. Known for collaboration and clear discussion, he scales teams and designs resilient systems for the hospitality tech space. Martin’s background ranges from early R&D and integrations in Grails to enterprise software at EMC, giving him rare full-life-cycle perspective on high-availability platforms. He brings an open-minded, innovative approach and a proven track record of turning complex legacy systems into reliable, cloud-native services.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Salesian Secondary CollegeBE (Hons) Level 8 1.1 Civil and Environmental Engineering, BE (Hons) Level 8 1.1 Civil and Environmental Engineering at University College Cork
Github Skills (185)
python10
testing10
terraform10
sink10
gcp10
serverless10
lambda10
azure10
developer-tools10
cdc10
kafka-connect10
continuous-integration10
aws-cloud10
aws-lambda10
databricks10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
siteminder-au/terraform-provider-databricks
Dec 2023 - Feb 2025
Databricks Terraform Provider
Contributions:74 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 2 months
martin-walsh/utilities
Jan 2015 - Aug 2018
Contributions:101 pushes in 3 years 7 months
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