Martin Kess
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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SeniorMartin Kess is a seasoned technology leader and entrepreneur, currently Co-Founder and CTO of Purplefish, building AI-driven recruiting automation in NYC with backing from top investors. With 14 years of experience, he combines hands-on engineering with strategic product leadership, having led engineering at Fractal Software and advised portfolio companies to raise the bar on people and processes. His technical breadth spans distributed systems at Google Cloud Pub/Sub, high-scale web services at Amazon, and low-latency financial software, including leadership roles at Lyft, Namely, and Broadway Technology. As a hands-on builder, he contributes to open-source projects such as docker-protoc, improving Docker-based gRPC gateway generation and testing workflows. He holds a Master’s in Computer Science from Georgia Tech and a BS in CS from the University of Waterloo, underpinning a rigorous technical foundation with practical product delivery.
15 years of coding experience
Github Skills (11)
dockerce10
bash10
docker10
ci-cd10
dockers10
grpc10
protocol-buffer9
protocol-buffers9
go8
kubernetes4
kubernetes-pod4
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
namely/docker-protoc
Dec 2017 - Feb 2019
Docker images for generating protocol buffer definitions
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:23 commits, 48 PRs, 62 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Martin primarily focused on improving the development and deployment workflow for the `docker-protoc` project. They made significant changes to the testing process and generation of gRPC gateway using Docker. The user's contributions include creating a script for generating Docker containers for the gRPC gateway, modifying the build process to accommodate new features, and updating the test suite. These changes streamlined the build and testing processes and incorporated improvements for gRPC gateway generation.
protocol-buffersbufferprotobufgrpcdocker
mdkess/Platformer2
Apr 2012 - May 2012
Contributions:13 commits in 1 month
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