Martin is a versatile researcher, software developer, and entrepreneur. He is creative and thoughtful, more generalist than specialist. He enjoys:
• understanding complex systems and their trade-offs,
• teaching and explaining ideas through writing and speaking,
• solving hard technical problems,
• improving the practice of software development by developing the underlying theory,
• recognizing what customers and users want,
• designing and developing usable and beautiful user interfaces.
Martin’s book, “Designing Data-Intensive Applications”, was published in 2017 to widespread acclaim. It is a top-selling book in the field of databases and data processing; many readers say it is one of the best computing books they have ever read; and the Chief Technology Officer of Microsoft has called it “required reading for software engineers”.
Before he switched to academic research, Martin worked in industry and co-founded two successful startups:
• Rapportage, which shows social profiles for your contacts as you're emailing them, was acquired by LinkedIn in 2012.
• Go Test It, a service for automatically testing websites in different browsers, was acquired by Red Gate in 2009.
