Sebastien Martin
Staff Engineer at Pachama
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSebastien Martin is a Staff Engineer with 15+ years building production software across mobile, backend, and large-scale data platforms, currently focused on maintaining some of Shopify’s largest Apache Spark deployments and advising Carbon Direct and Pachama on data engineering. He blends hands-on implementation with technical leadership—shaping scalable visions, improving testability and CI, and mentoring teams to raise engineering standards. Sebastien’s background spans native mobile apps to complex data pipelines, giving him a rare fluency in both user-facing product constraints and the realities of data infrastructure at scale. Curious about emerging languages, he routinely explores new tooling and patterns to simplify long-running systems and automation. Based in Ottawa, he brings a steady eye for architecture and a track record of turning experimental prototypes into dependable production services.
15 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at University of Ottawa
English, French
Github Skills (48)
querying9
virtualbox8
desktop-application8
hyper-v8
tesla7
libvirt7
oozie7
virtual-machine7
ubuntu7
configurator7
raise7
macos6
logging6
nodejs6
fetch6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
sebmartin/xETL
Sep 2019 - May 2024
A small, basic ETL library for local processing.
Contributions:13 PRs, 74 pushes, 10 branches in 4 years 8 months
data-exchangeetl-frameworketllocal-processingedi
sebmartin/sebmartin.github.io
May 2015 - Sep 2022
Contributions:5 pushes in 7 years 5 months
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