Matt Martin
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Matt Martin

Engineer at Toast. Ex-Marine Pilot. 🚁

A software engineer with a passion for designing and building products that make our lives easier and more productive.

I'm also a former Marine Pilot with eight years of operational and leadership experience in Naval Aviation.

Experience

Jun 2022 - Present

Senior iOS Engineer & Technical Lead - Local by Toast

iOS
android
react
kotlin
js
ts
pulsar

  • Technical owner of all features related to ordering and checkout in the Local by Toast iOS app, serving 2MM monthly transacting active users (MTAUs) and 80K Toast restaurants.
  • Created and led an initiative to provide customers with realtime updates on order status and a live delivery map that integrates with DoorDash and UberEats API's.
  • Led the frontend team responsible for developing a social network within the LBT app, allowing customers to post restaurant reviews, comments and photos of their dining experiences.
Jun 2022 - Present

Co-Founder at North County Entrepreneurs

  • Empowering local founders by providing a venue for entrepreneurial discussion, networking, and learning in the form of a monthly in-person meetup. https://northcountyentrepreneurs.com
  • Responsible for growing the organization from zero to over 150 members.
May 2011 - Present

Freelance Software Engineer

iOS
android
node
react
js
ts

  • I build apps for a number of client use cases with a primary expertise is iOS. I’ve created full stack experiences using a myriad of frameworks (js, ts, node, kotlin etc).
Jun 2014-Jun 2022

AH-1Z Instructor Pilot & Operations Officer at U.S. Marines

AH-1Z Pilot
Weapons and Tactics Instructor

In 2014, I left software to pursue a passion for aviation and fulfill a desire to serve. Military exit in Spring '22.

  • Managed \$990M in aviation assets and led a 25-person operations team, maintaining 98\% aircraft readiness rate across 31 helicopters.
  • Trained and certified 75+ military pilots, developing standardized procedures, tactics and conducting check rides.
  • As the Senior Weapons \& Tactics Instructor (WTI), I served as the subject matter expert for all aspects of planning, tactics, and mission execution in a squadron of 50 pilots.
Mar 2013-Jun 2014

Software Engineer II at Salesforce

android
java

Engineer on a nationwide team of developers, QA engineers, designers, and testers working on "Salesforce1", a CRM app that enables customers to manage employees, inventory, and customer engagement.

  • Built over a dozen features, created over 150 tests, and fixed over 200 bugs for the high visibility release of SF1 at Dreamforce '13
  • Collaborated with a distributed team of engineers and QAs during agile sprints.
May 2011-Mar 2013

Software Engineer at RealNetworks

php
jQuery
perl
bash
c
java

  • Built an internal business intelligence (BI) tool used by corporate leaders to make data-driven decisions for Real's suite of software.
  • Refactored and re-designed a javascript frontend and a php backend/ingestion suite consisting of a dozen technologies to include php, Java, perl, MySQL, and C.
  • Optimized time and space complexity on algorithms by orders of magntitude to efficiently ingest and store multi-billion row datasets.

Projects

Skeds Screenshot

Flight School Skeds

iOS
Swift
Node.js
Axios
Q
Cheerio
Firebase

A freemium productivity app that allows Navy flight students and instructors to effectively manage their individual flying schedules. A Node backend hosted on Firebase crawls the Navy flight schedules website, waiting for the next day's schedule to be released for each of the 25 training squadrons.

When a schedule drops, users receive a push notification that opens the app to their scheduled event(s). The frontend is a native iOS app that parses the raw HTML schedule data and allows users to search and filter by name and squadron.

  • Top 15 in "Productivity" apps from Feb 2020-March 2020.
  • Over 10,000 downloads since 2015.
  • 300 daily unique users
  • 90% Conversion Rate
  • Projected Android release in Fall '21


Juke screenshot

Juke

js
Node
Jade

I created Juke to solve the problem of playlist control at parties and events. The party host launches a lightweight node.js server that opens an endpoint on their local network. Users with mobile devices scan a QR code or navigate to a custom url and are presented with a frontend to add songs to a playlist.

The server ingests songs as they're added to the playlist and forwards them to a Spotify-API that places them in a queue. Songs are played in FIFO order. The party hosts retains admin powers to veto requests and skip songs from their mobile device or the host machine.

  • Working prototype marketed to Spotify in 2013 but was ultimately declined.
  • Juke was used by friends and colleagues at home and work for weddings and other events.
  • API was deprecated in 2015.


Automato Screenshot

Automato

js
jQuery

Automato is a Chrome extension that allows users to highlight a movie name on any webpage, right click it, and access that film's Rotten Tomatoes rating in the context menu.


KHANAAS screenshot

Khan as a Service

js
CoffeeScript
Node
AWS

KHANAAS is a fork of "FOAAS" that provides a web API for friends and co-workers to express friendly disdain for one another's actions in the form of Captain James Kirk or Mr. Spock cursing their name in classic Star Trek style.

The API went viral from an HN post and received 50,000 unique impressions on its first day. After two years, the domain lapsed and it has since been forked and revived by other users.


EICAS screenshot

T-6B EICAS

Android
Java

EICAS stands for "engine-indicating and crew-alerting system." It's a fancy way of describing gauges and alerts on some military aircraft. Determining when an aircraft is in a dangerous or hazardous state requires careful study and understanding of systems indications.

I built the app while learning to fly the T-6B during flight school to simulate gauges and error states that a T-6 pilot may encounter during flight. The Android app allowed students to train their brains on gauge indications to develop muscle memory for certain emergencies from their phone and without wasting precious simulator time.


Education

Bachelor's in Computer Science, Washington State University, 2011