Summary
Martyn Bissett is an experienced web developer with over a decade of delivering full-stack web applications across the UK, Australia and Japan. He combines a strong back-end background in PHP, MySQL/PostgreSQL and Ruby on Rails with front-end expertise in responsive design, progressive enhancement and frameworks such as jQuery, Backbone and Bootstrap. Martyn has built solutions for diverse sectors—higher education, policing, betting exchanges, e-commerce and travel—bringing practical experience in secure payments, web services and SEO. A former freelancer who values client-facing communication and deadlines, he now applies test-driven and automated approaches in university web teams while studying MSc Cyber Security. Notably, his career includes a cross-cultural stint teaching English in Japan, which enriched his collaborative and adaptive working style.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Cyber Security, MSc Cyber Security at University of Strathclyde
BSc Multimedia, BSc Multimedia at Glasgow Caledonian University
Japanese