Sebastian Martinez
Business Development at WyeWorks
Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay
Summary
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Top SchoolSebastian Martinez is a seasoned technology leader with 16 years of experience who transitioned from hands-on Ruby on Rails development into engineering leadership and now heads Business Development at WyeWorks. He spent six years scaling engineering teams as VP of Engineering—growing both the team to 20+ engineers and the client base—while maintaining a pragmatic, user-focused approach rooted in his early web development work. Sebastian contributes to the Ruby ecosystem (notably improving exception handling in Rails plugins and polishing ActiveResource docs), reflecting a detail-oriented mindset that values reliability and developer experience. Based in Montevideo, he combines technical credibility, product empathy, and client-facing skills to ensure teams deliver practical, well-documented solutions that meet real user needs.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Secundaria, Secundaria at Instituto CrandonComputer Engineering, Computer Engineering at Universidad de la República
Spanish, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (17)
ruby-rails10
activeresource10
testing10
rails10
ruby10
exception-handling10
actionmailer10
documentation10
api-design9
activerecord6
ruby-on-rails6
partial-views6
pdf-generation6
mongoid6
ide6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
smartinez87/exception_notification
Mar 2011 - Jan 2021
Exception Notifier Plugin for Rails
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 295 commits, 80 PRs in 10 years
Contributions summary:Sebastian primarily focused on improving the exception handling and notification system for a Rails application. Their contributions included fixing issues related to uninitialized constants, ensuring compatibility with different Rails versions, and enhancing the subject line of the error notifications. They also added test coverage and functionality for background exception notifications. Additionally, the user added the functionality to filter session IDs on secure requests and added the ability to ignore exceptions from certain crawlers.
railsrubynotifiermiddlewareplugin-notifier
rails/activeresource
Mar 2010 - May 2011
Connects business objects and REST web services
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Sebastian primarily contributed to code quality and documentation within the ActiveResource library. Their commits focused on fixing punctuation errors, removing extra whitespace, and adding documentation to existing code. These changes include documenting the `ActiveResource#observing` method and adding documentation to the `ActiveResource::HttpMock` class. The user also addressed coding conventions in some tests.
apirestfulweb-servicesrest-clientrest
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