Marty Bell
Principal Software Architect at Rakuten - European Group Companies
Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMarty Bell is a Principal Software Architect based in Belfast with over two decades of hands-on experience and nine years in senior technical leadership roles, primarily within financial services. He currently leads architecture for Rakuten's European group, bringing deep expertise in enterprise payment platforms, Java ecosystems, and scaling Agile and Lean practices. His background includes chief engineering and integration authority roles at CyberSource, Lloyds, HBOS and others, where he shaped technology strategy, standards, and governance for mission-critical systems. Marty combines pragmatic engineering with organizational coaching—driving continuous improvement while remaining engaged in design and delivery. A longtime practitioner since the 1990s, he pairs institutional knowledge of legacy enterprise systems with modern architectural approaches to reduce risk and accelerate delivery.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Applied Computing, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Applied Computing at Ulster University
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Github Skills (56)
command-line-interface10
azure10
terraform9
terraform-provider9
azure-cli9
azure-resource-manager9
azure-keyvault8
microsoft-azure8
hashicorp-vault8
gcp-secret-manager7
aws-secrets-manager7
nodejs7
kubernetes7
dcos7
serverless6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
rakutenrbl/multichain-peer
Sep 2016 - Nov 2017
Contributions:28 commits, 10 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 year 2 months
ethereump2pblockchainmultichain
marty2bell/voting-contract
Dec 2023 - Mar 2024
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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