Bill Martin

Software Engineer. Musician. Father.

Portfolio

Serverless Pub/Sub Node.js Process

Screenshot of eCommerce website featuring the rewards program

Customer Rewards Program

Architectural Diagram of the ETL Pipeline

Data Lake ETL Process Overhaul

Payment Encryption Web Services

Screenshot of application that allows bulk employee enrollment and managements for groups

Group Enrollment Platform

Screenshot of Covered California Marketplace

Payment Tokenization Platform

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About

By day, I research, prototype, and build POCs for innovative technologies within the fintech space as a senior software engineer at Raymond James.

By night, I write & record music, read fantasy, sci-fi, & programming books, flex my newly minted dadhood, and lurk stock & software subreddits.

I live in Manchester, NH.

Interests as of Late

Now:

Amazon Lex
Hyperledger Fabric
Amazon Managed Blockchain

Soon:

Python
Quantum Computing
Clean Architecture

Later:

Flask
Svelte
AWS ECS/ECR/Fargate

Latest Posts

Python for PHP Developers: Deep Dive Part 2

What is it like moving from PHP to Python? Part 2 explores Python’s float, string, and list operators and operations.

Python for PHP Developers: Deep Dive Part 1

What is it like moving from PHP to Python? What are the similarities and differences between them?

How to Build and Deploy a Node.js, Express, and MySQL API to GCP

Let’s build a Node.js + Express API from scratch, connect Cloud SQL for MySQL, and deploy it all to Google Cloud using gcloud CLI.

Configure Laravel to Use PostgreSQL with Homestead

I was building a Laravel app in Homestead, with MySQL. I later decided to use PostgreSQL. This took a bit longer than expected.

The Evolution of Me as a Developer

This is the quasi-comical looking back of my adventurous history as a web developer, my goofs, my successes, my failures, my hopes.

The World is Mine for the Reading

We need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever. ― Philip Pullman

Why Software Development is Rewarding

We play God when we run our code, breathing life into its lungs, with its own little Big Bang at execution time, exploding into existence.

Usability in Three Minutes

“Don’t Make Me Think” is a classic book on web usability. This is what I learned from the book, reduced down to a three minute read.

How I Keep Track of Things

Ok, look. I’m really awesome at keeping track things. Here is my system.

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