# James Martin > Senior Software Engineer Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/jamesmartin Researcher, engineer with experience in architecting, implementing, and operating distributed systems and data pipelines in production. Focused on enabling teams to sleep better through best practices in observability and on-call gardening. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Guild Education Jan 2021 – Present | Brooklyn, New York, United States Guild is a B-Corp with a mission to provide education opportunities to America’s workforce. - Scaled Guild’s program offerings from tens of academic partners to thousands with Python serverless functions - Led development and adoption of templated AWS SAM infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines to help multiple teams across the engineering organization streamline new development from days to minutes - Guaranteed warehouse data quality across Guild by leading adoption of data as a product approach; Enabled reliable reporting of KPIs like enrollments, graduation rate, and successfully delivered invoices for the first time - Expanded responsibilities from solving team-sized problems to organization-sized problems through delivering templated approaches to recurring technical problems and mentoring engineers in AWS best practices ### Senior Software Engineer/Consultant @ Nuvalence Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Brooklyn, New York, United States Nuvalence is a consulting firm that builds digital platforms for enterprise clients. - Led team responsible for providing observability tooling across a serverless platform for a US Big Three automobile manufacturer - In addition to client account responsibilities, managed three Nuvalence direct reports ### Senior Software Engineer @ MapMyFitness - Under Armour Connected Fitness Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Austin, Texas Both MyFitnessPal and MapMyFitness mobile applications see traffic at scale with millions of daily active users. I supported both applications and my role as a Senior Software Engineer included: - Planning, architecting, building, monitoring, and operating production microservices and a monolith deployed with home rolled and managed infrastructure, including Kubernetes, mainly on AWS - Architecting, configuring, monitoring, and operating data ETL pipelines orchestrated by Apache Airflow on both Google Cloud and AWS infrastructure ### Software Engineer @ MapMyFitness - Under Armour Connected Fitness Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Austin, Texas Area ### Software Engineer (Emerging Technology) @ IBM Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Austin, Texas Researcher and developer in the IBM Cloud Emerging Technology lab, responsible for productizing research efforts such as IBM Watson and IBM Bluemix. - Architected and built an internal product for automating creating, training, evaluating, deploying, and scoring machine learning models via web APIs. ### Software Engineer @ IBM Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Austin, Texas Extreme Blue Internship Program The Extreme Blue internship is a unique three month program within IBM, more here: http://www-01.ibm.com/employment/us/extremeblue/ - Built a proof-of-concept sentiment analysis marketing product in three months using Java and IBM Watson deployed on IBM Bluemix - Pitched product at IBM Headquarters in Armonk, NY to senior executive staff ### Software Engineer (System Z) @ IBM Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Raleigh, North Carolina ### Systems Engineer (Information Systems & Global Solutions) @ Lockheed Martin Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Rockville, Maryland Lab technician and systems engineer supporting Air Traffic Control software test lab ## Education ### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Jan 2011 – Jan 2014 ### Master of Science (M.S.) in Computer Science The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jamesloganmartin - Website: https://jameslmart.in --- Source: https://flows.cv/jamesmartin JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/jamesmartin/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22