Paul Martinez is a seasoned software engineer with 12 years of experience building scalable full-stack systems and developer tools, currently at Jane Street in New York. He blends systems-level expertise—evident from Cloud SQL Postgres logical replication work at Google and a Postgres patch while at Affinity—with practical product instincts, shipping everything from backend APIs to React frontends. Paul is also an active open-source maintainer: he built jless, a popular command-line JSON viewer, and created plaintextsports.com to deliver instant live scores with a minimalist, text-first approach. Comfortable on-call and in infrastructure roles, he has a strong background in performance, scaling, and developer ergonomics, grounded in MS/BS degrees from Stanford.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University School of Milwaukee
Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics and Computer Science (Systems), with Distinction, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics and Computer Science (Systems), with Distinction at Stanford University
jless is a command-line JSON viewer designed for reading, exploring, and searching through JSON data.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:5 releases, 1 review, 247 commits in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Paul primarily focused on developing the user interface and core functionalities of the command-line JSON viewer, jless. They implemented input handling using /dev/tty, integrated features for scrolling, and added commands for manipulating the focus in a JSON tree. The contributions also included incorporating syntax highlighting and object key formatting.
A Ruby serialization library for use with the Sequel ORM.
Contributions:53 commits, 1 PR, 21 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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