Michael Martin
Lead Product Manager at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolMichael Martin is a Lead Product Manager and MIT/Harvard-educated technology leader with 11+ years of experience blending product strategy, data engineering, and operational turnarounds across enterprise and startup environments. A US Navy veteran, he pairs disciplined, mission-driven leadership with hands-on technical fluency in Python, SQL, ML, and ETL—skills he applies to P&L ownership, GTM strategy, and agile product delivery. He teaches and advises at MIT while leading product at ADP, demonstrating an uncommon mix of classroom rigor and real-world execution. An active open-source contributor, Michael has improved core infrastructure projects like the Kong API gateway and the Lua language server, showing a knack for backend and DevOps robustness. His background in building FP&A models and BATNA negotiation complements his data-first approach to pricing, customer analytics, and vendor partnerships. He’s equally comfortable designing machine learning experiments as he is aligning C-suite stakeholders to deliver measurable margin and revenue improvements.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Bachelor's Degree at DePaul UniversityHBS, HBS at Harvard Business SchoolDE, DE at MIT Sloan School of ManagementMaster’s Degree, Master’s Degree at Harvard UniversityUniversity of Washington - Michael G. Foster School of Business
Github Skills (15)
lua10
openresty10
nginx10
devops10
clustering10
annotate10
api-gateway10
annotations10
reverse-proxy9
websocket9
api-management9
aws-lambda9
prometheus8
docker8
dockers8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
Kong/kong
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
🦍 The Cloud-Native API Gateway and AI Gateway.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:711 reviews, 68 commits, 381 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily focused on improving the Kong API Gateway. Their contributions included fixing clustering issues, such as ensuring graceful termination of data plane config threads, and addressing file read failures. They also worked on the AWS Lambda plugin, correcting proxying behavior and deprecating a configuration parameter. Furthermore, the user updated Prometheus plugin version and improved test reliability. They also incorporated a new feature involving the stream API that uses TCP rather than UDP.
api-gatewaynginxkong-pluginserverlessload-balancing
LuaLS/lua-language-server
Dec 2021 - Dec 2022
A language server that offers Lua language support - programmed in Lua
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 32 commits, 8 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Michael contributed to the lua-language-server project by updating and cleaning up annotations for OpenResty library modules, specifically focusing on `resty.websocket` and `resty.core.*` related modules. These changes involved modifying and refining type definitions for various OpenResty modules. Further contributions involved cleaning up annotations for the `ngx.*`, `resty.string`, `resty.lock`, `resty.lrucache`, `table.*`, and `tablepool` OpenResty libraries.
lualpeglsp-serverlsplanguage-support
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