Martin Melin's Email Addresses & Phone Numbers

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Support Engineer @ Xpeedio From September 2008 to July 2010 (1 year 11 months) Staff Software Engineer @ Stripe Greater New York City AreaHead Of Engineering @ Wonder (AskWonder.com) Joined as the first technical leader, taking over engineering from the founder after Series A.- More than doubled engineering team size, hiring six engineers and first data scientist and data analyst, only 2/8 through a recruiter- Prioritized team diversity and achieved improved team balance on a number of dimensions- Established data function, enabling better decision making across the business through faster and more reliable data access in a complex domain- Planned and managed the rollout of first production machine learning models- Introduced a network simulator to enable product experimentation in a marketplace business where A/B testing is not possible- Cut time spent by engineers in QA by 50% through workflow improvements and tech investment- Reduced bug frequency by >60% while drastically improving development velocity- Improved engineer happiness, monitored through quarterly survey- Managed multiple teams across data, infrastructure and product engineering- Part of the executive team, reporting to CEO and working with board and advisorsSome technologies used: Node.js, React, Heroku, AWS, Postgres, MongoDB, Redshift, dbt, SQL, Python From January 2018 to January 2019 (1 year 1 month) Greater New York City AreaHead of Engineering @ Tictail, Inc. Relocated from Stockholm to help open an office in New York focused on marketing and growth.- Recruited a total of eight software engineers in new market- Managed team(s) of software engineers, designers and marketers- Started and led company-first Growth team, mainly focused on CRO A/B tests across both seller and buyer sides of our marketplace as well as SEO and paid acquisition channels- Significantly improved marketing/engineering partnership through “bicycle” framework: engineering creates tools for marketing to use instead of implementing one-off campaigns- Led SEO strategy and implementation across product teams, SEO being the largest traffic source- Ran developer event with 200+ attendees in first month in NYCSome technologies used: Python, Javascript, Node, React, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, AWS, Chef, Fastly From September 2014 to October 2017 (3 years 2 months) Greater New York City AreaDeveloper @ Blocket.se While at university, joined as first-ever “summer intern” at this massive-scale classifieds site.- Picked up home-grown scripting language TMPL and shipped code week 1- Worked in 5 person XP team along PM on new product implementation- Implemented on-site A/B tests, backend features, test suite improvementsSome technologies used: TMPL, C, Python, Javascript, PostgreSQL, Apache, Selenium From June 2011 to August 2011 (3 months) Technical Account Manager @ Xpeedio - Technical account management for three customers: an e-commerce recommendation engine SaaS platform, a healthcare medical record exchange platform and an open-source system monitoring software vendor- Pre- and post-sales engineering support for new contracts- Built business case for and implemented Nagios consultingSome technologies used: Python, Java, PHP, Nagios, SQL, AWS, QlikView, Salesforce From May 2009 to July 2010 (1 year 3 months) Software Engineer @ Tictail, Inc. Employee #3- Helped bring product from private beta to on-time public launch- Key engineer; wrote, refactored, reviewed hundreds of thousands of lines of Python & Javascript- Started summer internship program, hired and mentored interns each summer- Established culture of retrospectives, championed across all teams, not just engineering- Intimately involved in engineering hiring, onboarding, career ladder creation- Myriad other hats as company grew from 5 to 50 people, seed to series BSome technologies used: Python, Javascript, RabbitMQ, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, HAProxy, AWS, Chef From April 2012 to September 2014 (2 years 6 months) Stockholm, Sweden