Raul Martin
Co-Founder & CTO at Lupa
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRaul Martin is a London-based Co-Founder and CTO with a decade of experience building user-facing web platforms and design systems. He advanced through three engineering levels at Meta before founding Lupa, combining product-scale engineering with startup leadership. Raul has hands-on front-end expertise—contributing UI components and accessibility features to Skyscanner’s widely used Backpack design system, including RTL and mobile fullscreen behavior. He excels at turning design systems into reusable, well-documented components that scale across teams. Comfortable shipping end-to-end solutions, he pairs a Computer Science degree from Manchester with a practical focus on developer experience and clean component APIs. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic engineer who brings both execution speed and long-term product thinking.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at The University of Manchester
Github Skills (13)
css10
system10
uid10
javascript10
component-library10
backpack10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
system-design10
sys10
carbon-design-system10
react10
mobile-development9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Skyscanner/backpack
Oct 2017 - Mar 2018
Backpack Design System for the Web
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 12 PRs, 26 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Raul primarily contributed to the Backpack Design System, focusing on the implementation of UI components. The commits demonstrate the addition of a slider component and enhancements to modal and drawer components, incorporating new features like RTL support, full-screen mobile behavior, and customization options. This work involved modifying existing components, adding new features, and updating documentation and storybook examples.
reactskyscannernodejsdesign-systemcomponent-library
raullm7/backpack
Oct 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:62 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
reacttypescriptdesign-systembackpack
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