Hello friend, I'm Martins.

I'm a father, husband, hacker and software engineer. I love nature and spending time outdoors. I consume incredible amounts of coffee and love eating spicy stuff.

💾 I've been writing code since before Y2K, starting with Lua and VB.
🖥️ First PC: Compaq rocking 133MHz Pentium, 8MB RAM, Windows 95.
🌩️ Curious about DevEx, cloud-distributed infrastructure, Kubernetes, and cybersecurity.
🎓 Graduated from the University of Kent with first-class honours, having picked up Java.
📰 Creator of Friday Tech Focus Newsletter.
📌 Pinning the Map ▸ 🇱🇻🇬🇧🇬🇷🇪🇸🇮🇹🇺🇸🇵🇹
📸 Photography enthusiast ▸ Canon EOS M6
📫 I'm easy to reach; drop me a line.

💼 Developing enterprise-grade software since 2015.

• 📺 Broadcasting ▸ Developed metadata ingestion pipelines and REST APIs using AWS, Kafka, Cassandra, MongoDB, gRPC, Ruby, and Java.
• ⚡️ Utilities ▸ Focused on telecommunications and billing microservices development with AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Kafka, MongoDB, Postgres, etcd, gRPC, and Golang.
• 🔍 Market Research ▸ Specialised in automation, microservices development, REST APIs, and enhancing Developer Experience with AWS, Postgres, and Golang.

🧰 Tools of My Trade.

👀 A hidden message.

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