Marty Ross
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Engineer and Developer
San Francisco, United States
Toptal member since September 25, 2026
Martin has spent over 13 years building distributed systems and production infrastructure across financial services and media. His toolkit centers on AWS, Kubernetes, and Docker. While at Crunchyroll, Martin improved code coverage by 25% and reduced incident MTTR by 30%.
Portfolio
Experience
- Java - 20 years
- Python - 8 years
- Node.js - 6 years
- TypeScript - 5 years
- C# - 3 years
- Go - 3 years
- Claude Code - 2 years
- Databricks - 1 year
Preferred Environment
Amazon Web Services (AWS), GCP, Terraform, Helm, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, CircleCI, GitHub Actions
The most amazing...
...system I've built is an enterprise site reliability service that delivers real-time error budget dashboards and automated SLO workflows for thousands of teams.
Work Experience
Senior Software Engineer
Capital One Financial
- Introduced a multi-agent AI skill, resulting in 500% efficiency gain during support rotations to promote automated security PRs across all team repositories.
- Developed Databricks Notebooks and Spark Jobs to locate and process billions of data lake records.
- Designed and implemented multiple scalable AWS Lambda services in Python, TypeScript, and Go to process data, events, or user requests and deliver updates or responses.
- Initiated and led a program leveraging AWS FIS and custom tooling to run controlled failure experiments in production as part of CI/CD, increasing resilience and reducing recovery times.
- Led the development of an enterprise site reliability service combining a serverless Go back end (DynamoDB) and a TypeScript/Angular front end, delivering error budget dashboards, automated SLO workflows, and real-time notifications.
- Established enterprise-wide BDD integration testing patterns in Go, Java, Node.js, and Python, improving test coverage and consistency across 2,000+ teams.
- Initiated and led a program leveraging AWS FIS and custom tooling to run controlled failure experiments in production as part of CI/CD, increasing resilience and reducing recovery times.
Senior Software Engineer
Crunchyroll
- Developed AWS Step Function-driven TypeScript Lambdas for content management workflows.
- Led refactoring of four Go back-end services to improve testability and code coverage by 25%, increasing stability and developer productivity.
- Optimized MySQL queries for 2 high-traffic CMS services, increasing throughput by 20-50%.
- Reduced frequency and MTTR of critical incidents by 30% through code improvements, enhanced dashboards, and custom metrics with New Relic NRQL.
Software Engineering
Independent Consultant
- Created a batch processing system using Spring Batch for large-scale ETL workloads.
- Designed a replacement for and migration of the legacy data pipeline.
- Planned and led onboarding of several primary data sources.
Staff Software Engineer
Revinate
- Decomposed a Java monolith into containerized microservices on AWS Kubernetes.
- Built a high-throughput customer data pipeline using Kafka/KTable, gRPC, and Spark.
- Designed a plugin architecture enabling field technicians to deploy custom ETL logic independently, increasing core team availability by 50%.
- Migrated data pipeline stream from RabbitMQ to Kafka.
Staff Software Engineer
Navis
- Architected Java Equipment Control Interface (ECI) facade API to control automated guided vehicles and cranes.
- Designed and implemented a Spring Boot REST API to integrate new crane control systems, reducing onboarding time by 75%.
- Reduced MTTR by 15% through instrumentation, providing visualized traces of protocol interactions with external equipment.
- Educated others by providing mentoring, peer reviews, frequent blog posts, and presentations at lunch and learn forums.
- Championed test-driven development (TDD) with CI/CD tooling and test coverage reporting.
Experience
Flight Visualizer
https://github.com/noodnik2/flightvisualizerEducation
Bachelor's Degree in Economics and Computer Science
UCLA - Los Angeles, CA, USA
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Node.js, PySpark, React, OpenAPI, OpenAI API
Tools
Git, AWS Step Functions, Jenkins, Claude Code, Jira, Confluence, Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), Terraform, Helm, CircleCI, RabbitMQ, Cron, Amazon Athena, Grafana, Splunk
Languages
Python, Go, Java, TypeScript, Snowflake, C#, HTML5, Groovy, GraphQL, CSS3
Frameworks
Spring, Django, Spark, Angular, Spring Batch, gRPC, Spring Boot, Tailwind CSS, Selenium
Platforms
Databricks, AWS Lambda, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker, Oracle, Kubernetes
Storage
Amazon DynamoDB, MySQL, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Datadog, Redis, Amazon Aurora
Paradigms
Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Other
Computer Skills, Kafka, TDD, FastAPI, Express, i18n, Step Functions, CI/CD Pipelines, AI Agents, Instrumentation, Distributed Tracing, SLI/SLO/SLA, Chaos Engineering, Software Design, Google Earth KML, Aviation, New Relic Query Language (NRQL), AWS Kubernetes, KTable, GCP, GitHub Actions, WebSockets, Event Streaming, Responsive Design, A11Y, Fargate, Profiling, Caching, OpenTelemetry, Performance Optimization, Distributed Systems, Statistics, Econometrics, Apache Cassandra, 3D Tracking, AeroAPI, Prometheus
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