# Gaston Martin > Senior Lead Software Engineer at DraftKings Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/gaston ## Work Experience ### Senior Lead Software Engineer @ DraftKings Inc. Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 ### Staff Software Engineer @ Jackpocket Jan 2017 – Jan 2024 | New York City Metropolitan Area - iOS - • Architected and led the development of the Jackpocket iOS app from the ground up using MVVM architecture. • Recently built out Scratchers. This allows users to digitally order and scratch tickets from the Jackpocket app. • Played a key role in mitigating reliance on third-party location verification systems, passing audits with what we built internally. - Machine Learning - • Built machine learning models that are core to various services at Jackpocket, including our OCR classification model. Achieves 99.99% accuracy on all image data from lottery tickets increasing the volume of tickets we're able to process. • Helped develop and maintain a highly specialized OCR service for reading and parsing lottery ticket images with unparalleled accuracy, akin to AWS Textract or Tesseract but customized for Jackpocket’s needs. • Created MLOps pipelines using GCP, streamlining the retraining and deployment of machine learning models for increased efficiency and reliability. - Operations - • Reverse engineered QR codes used in multiple states for ordering lottery tickets, solving a complex problem and significantly improving operational scalability by leveraging my background in mathematics. • Developed all internal customer support tools, significantly reducing the workload for the support team by thousands of hours per year. Came out of hopping into CS to help out during the billion dollar jackpots that brought us to #1 in the app store. • Created tool to detect fraudulent users, mitigating suspicious activity on our platform. - Data Engineering - • Enhanced the technical maturity of Jackpocket’s systems by optimizing data pipelines, improving the handling, transfer, and sharing of critical data. • Maintained critical image processing code, from hardware integration to data preprocessing for OCR models, ensuring accurate matching of purchased lottery tickets to user orders. ### Full Stack Developer @ Hewson Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 Developed backend in node.js and mongodb while building out the iOS app on the Swift 3 beta. Developed product ideas and innovated on healthcare. ### CTO @ THE O Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 Directed team of developers across platforms from Android, Web, and iOS. Built out app from scratch to communicate with wearable bluetooth devices. Worked with BLE communication and managing power consumption on app, while creating a heavily customized UI. ### CTO @ Clora Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 Pharmaceutical Startup. Directed team of developers / designers. Created a business plan to drive clinical trial consultants to the companies that require their specialties. ### iOS Engineer @ WeatherSphere Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 Shipped ‘Pam’, the showcased feature for WeatherSphere at CES ‘15. Improved visual design from UI to UX. Contributed to multiple features, while working as a full stack developer. Worked on several applications, reaching 3.5 million users. Experience with WatchKit and the Apple Watch development process. ### iOS Developer @ Derby Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Morristown NJ Created interesting algorithms to determine primary colors from album covers, to then dynamically change the rest of the UI to match. Used creative formulas to smoothly change collection view cell sizes based on screen location. App was written entirely in Swift. ## Education ### Master's degree in Mathematics New York University Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 ### Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics Rutgers University Jan 2011 – Jan 2014 ### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science Rutgers University Jan 2011 – Jan 2014 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/gaston-martin53 --- Source: https://flows.cv/gaston JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/gaston/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22