Martin

Martin

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5.0
(16 reviews)
US$50.00
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ABOUT ME
Competent technical debt reducer, enterprise solutions architect, great decision maker.
Competent technical debt reducer, enterprise solutions architect, great decision maker.

I offer a healthy balance of hands-on experience and motivation to work hard combined with a ton of knowledge. I love what I do and it shows:

  • 20+ years of experience of bespoke enterprise-class PHP web development for aviation, pharma, fintech, adult, and gambling industries
  • project/product/team/department management and training were my priorities
  • deploying scalable solutions ready for high traffic, load balanced, replicated, redundant, backed up with 0-downtime deployment
  • huge proponent of coding standards, functional work flow (ticketing systems, git branching model), continuous integration (GitLab CI/CD).
  • skilled in code smell, QA, RESTful API development (JSON in/JSON out).
    I specialize in writing elegant code and helping others do so too.
English
Eastern Time (US & Canada) (-05:00)
Joined October 2014
EXPERTISE
20 years experience
Rasmus still works at Etsy, Phil is no longer biking around Europe, Adam and co are working on Tailwind 4, Taylor has released Laravel 11...
Rasmus still works at Etsy, Phil is no longer biking around Europe, Adam and co are working on Tailwind 4, Taylor has released Laravel 11 and Jeffrey is right now probably producing yet another amazing Laracast. I keep an eye on the industry, consume new information, keep myself ahead of the curve through different projects, PHP works for me and I want to make it work for you too!
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13 years experience
Developing solely RESTful API driven repos with JSON in/JSON out, validation, SOLID/DRY/KISS methodology, URL structure, semantics, secur...
Developing solely RESTful API driven repos with JSON in/JSON out, validation, SOLID/DRY/KISS methodology, URL structure, semantics, security, coding standards, debugging and QA. Writing scalable, maintainable code with documentation. JWT Auth, Fractal to massage data on the way out, mutators and accessors on the way in - in order to not expose the db structure.
PHP
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10 years experience
Writing APIs in Laravel, one of the easiest yet most-powerful framework currently available. Explaining RESTful principles and adhering t...
Writing APIs in Laravel, one of the easiest yet most-powerful framework currently available. Explaining RESTful principles and adhering to them, namespaces, SOLID/DRY/KISS. Introducing coding standards. Taking advantage of Eloquent - the sweet sweet DBAL and ORM - in its full. Building a CLI-driven app only. Scheduling cronjobs. Responding to events. Queuing tasks. Caching smartly. Let's talk.
PHP
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PHP
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15 years experience
Developing enterprise software for multinational companies in aviation, finance, adult industry and gambling, always working with localis...
Developing enterprise software for multinational companies in aviation, finance, adult industry and gambling, always working with localisation, privacy and software security in mind. Remote updates, incorporating and/or preventing back-door access. UX and UI for enterprise employees, writing offline apps and much more.
20 years experience | 1 endorsement
Having developed over a dozen aviation applications, contributed to a couple of blue-chip adult and gambling sites, responsible for code ...
Having developed over a dozen aviation applications, contributed to a couple of blue-chip adult and gambling sites, responsible for code overhaul, improvement, reducing technical debt. From conception to delivery, including normalised db structure, redundancy and QA.
Laravel
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Laravel
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4 years experience
I have worked with Bootstrap, Zurb Playground, Semantic UI, Material design, Bulma and similar, I have seen trends come and go and I beli...
I have worked with Bootstrap, Zurb Playground, Semantic UI, Material design, Bulma and similar, I have seen trends come and go and I believe TailwindCSS is here to stay. It makes sense to me, I help others make sense of it. Allows me to get into projects right away, pick up the work of others and easily extend/modify/fix, works well for all sizes of projects.
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15 years experience
Achieving the most with the least code possible, implementing progressive enhancement and graceful degradation, optimising for mobile dev...
Achieving the most with the least code possible, implementing progressive enhancement and graceful degradation, optimising for mobile devices and different screen sizes. Cross browser/cross platform debugging. Writing custom tailor-made JS plugins. Writing content and code with SEO practices in mind, using semantic markup and naming conventions. Skilled in Twitter Bootstrap, Semantic UI, UIKit, Zurb foundation, Material Design and TailwindCSS, flex box, grids, responsive web design (RWD). Using and implementing automation through CSS preprocessors (Sass), Bower and Gulp, Webpack and PurgeCSS.
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REVIEWS FROM CLIENTS

5.0
(16 reviews)
Andrew Lawson
Andrew Lawson
March 2024
Amazing work, and so much effort put in. Flawless. His advice put my mind at rest, he answered every question I had and he has so much knowledge in his core areas and surrounding ones too, so he can answer those awkward cross-technology questions. I am so glad I chose him.
Jake Barrett
Jake Barrett
October 2020
Martin was a truly knowledgeable, organized, and helpful mentor. He helped me to produce exactly the software I had in mind when coming to codementor. Not only did he know exactly the best and most pertinent technologies/techniques to solve the problem I had, he was also an incredible mentor and teacher. I feel like I have learned a whole college degree's worth of information and techniques from Martin, in only a few short months. He was always in close contact and willing to help wherever he could. I would highly recommend hiring Martin for your job, you will not be disappointed. He is exemplary of what a codementor should be.
Peter Phillip
Peter Phillip
April 2016
Awesome results! The problems were tricky to explain, and of course the fear when getting assistance from another dev is "will they understand, will they safely handle the code" so that you may have the simplest and fastest or smartest solution from their aid. And this was the result we got, through the process great mentorship by Martin! The work implemented and advise given to us was a great boost to our project and fix. We are very glad to have met and worked with Martin, most high recommendation. Would most definitely work with him again.
Ricardo Garcia-Amaya
Ricardo Garcia-Amaya
April 2016
Martin is an expert with tons of good ideas/advices and excellent attitude. We as a team rated 5 stars because it was really helpful.
Andrew Blackwell
Andrew Blackwell
January 2016
I came to Codementor with a general idea of what I wanted to accomplish. Martin reached out to me immediately. We had an initial conversation over the Codementor messaging program to ensure that not only he (Martin) but I fully understood what I was wanting to accomplish and what I could expect in terms of time and necessary skill level to make that happen. After we both agreed that I was headed in the right direction and that he was a good fit for my request, we set up our initial meeting. When we began, Martin spent 15 minutes (free of charge) helping me set up my environment as to make the most use of my time during our sessions. Not only was I blown away by Martin's skill level and experience, but he was able to teach and impart the knowledge I needed. Which, to me, is a HUGE thing. You can sit all day long with a pro, but if they are not a good teacher, you will learn very little. Mentoring is hard to do right, and Martin certainly does it RIGHT. You can tell he cares that you LEARN from your experience and not only accomplish your goals, but think beyond them. He was always available for follow up and his demeanor was always that of honesty, courtesy, and curiosity. It goes without saying that Martin was one of the most talented individuals I have had the chance to learn from, and he was always a wonderful teacher. I have also made a new friend in the industry. Can't say enough good things.
Anders Berg
Anders Berg
December 2015
Talking through the problem during the free 10 minutes led me in the right direction. He was mindful of my time and suggested I work out some of the issues offline. Turns out, I solved the issue based on our conversation. Will definitely reach out again if I need some more help!
William Assaad
William Assaad
April 2015
Martin gave me a lot of tips in very little time and helped me solve all my issues, definitely will do a session again!
Zayed
Zayed
March 2015
Great knowledge of PHP, concatenation, SQL and much more. Highly recommended.
Justin C
Justin C
January 2015
Martin was extremely helpful, and answered the questions presented extremely quickly. He was very courteous, helpful, and enjoyable to work with. I highly recommend reaching out to him with any development questions you may have!
mama luna
mama luna
January 2015
He was helpful and advised me for proper database structure. Time will show if he was right :D
EMPLOYMENTS
Senior Solutions Architect
Collage Venture Partners
2021-09-01-Present

Having scoped, planned, pair-programmed with company's junior coders and delivered a custom investment management tool which had ...

Having scoped, planned, pair-programmed with company's junior coders and delivered a custom investment management tool which had processed close to $1b in investments since its inception. Lead a rewrite from VueJs 2/Nuxt 2 to Vuejs 3/Nuxt 3, Laravel 7 to 11, commited on AWS resources reducing monthly costs, setup parity between local, staging and production through docker compose and self-hosted gitlab CI/CD. Setup self hosted monitoring and changedetection scraper, linked to webhooks in MS Teams and Mattermost.

PHP
PostgreSQL
Nginx
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PHP
PostgreSQL
Nginx
Laravel
Redis
Monitoring
CLI
Development Environment
GitLab
Docker
Deployment automation
Docker Compose
Data Backup
Product launch
Product Owner
Nuxt.js
VS Code
RESTful API
Tailwind css
GitLab CI/CD
AWS
Vue.js 3
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