Dave Martin
Senior Data Engineer
Skipton, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDave Martin is a Senior Data Engineer and hands-on technical lead with nearly two decades of experience building large-scale, production data systems using Java, Scala, Spark, Hadoop and Kubernetes. He has designed and delivered integrated architectures for biodiversity and GIS platforms—leading core efforts at GBIF and the Atlas of Living Australia to scale search indexes, specimen/occurrence databases and harvest/aggregation pipelines. Comfortable across cloud (AWS), on-prem big data stacks and both relational and NoSQL stores, he pairs deep performance tuning and Lucene/Elasticsearch expertise with practical team and vendor management. His background in mathematics (1st class BSc) and an MSc in Computer Science informs a pragmatic, systems-oriented approach to complex data problems, and he’s known for turning taxonomic and spatial data at hundreds of millions of records into usable, searchable products.
17 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Mathematics, 1st class, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Mathematics, 1st class at University of LeicesterMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science, Distinction, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science, Distinction at University College London, U. of London
Github Skills (135)
taxonomy10
testing10
image-viewer10
metadata10
polygons10
thunderbird10
ogc10
atlas10
grails-plugin10
name-matching10
webapp10
pipeline10
data-processing10
ansible10
pagerduty10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
AtlasOfLivingAustralia/generic-hub
Apr 2014 - Jul 2017
Generic hub template grails app
Contributions:2 releases, 39 commits, 14 pushes in 3 years 4 months
grailsala-product-biocache
AtlasOfLivingAustralia/documentation
Nov 2015 - Jun 2021
Documentation for ALA demo install
Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 6 pushes in 5 years 8 months
alaala-product-documentation
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