Joshua Martinez

AVP of Software Engineering with 12 years of building and scaling engineering organizations from early-stage startup to enterprise

Skills

Aug 2020 – Present · 6 yrs 2 mos · Remote

Led the engineering integration following the acquisition of Limelight Health, transitioning the program to the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
Manage 22 people across 3 platform teams and 2 application teams.
Lead a globally distributed organization spanning the US, Ireland, India, Poland, and Mexico, driving mentorship and career development.
Own security and compliance reporting for the program's multiple services.
Partner with enterprise architects, CloudOps, security, and executive leadership on business, product, and technical roadmaps.
Manage vendor relationships and performance reporting for contract staff augmentation.

Jun 2015 – Aug 2020 · 5 yrs 2 mos · Remote

Scaled the engineering department from 4 local engineers to over 50 fully remote across 6 scrum teams, with contractors in 6 countries.
Built and led the DevOps, Software, Quality, and Data engineering teams from the ground up, handing each to a dedicated manager as the organization grew.
Established security, SOC2, and disaster recovery policies and led third-party audit preparation until a CISO was hired.
Managed the engineering budget with the CTO and partnered with Sales, Product, Customer Success, and HR on staffing, compliance, and roadmap planning.
Drove hiring across the organization, including interview panels for VPoE, Director, Manager, Product, and UI/UX roles.
Owned the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and administered the company's AWS account, including billing and budgeting.
Launched professional development programs including hackathons and e-learning through Udemy, Pluralsight, and O'Reilly.

Aug 2014 – Jun 2015 · 10 mos · Remote

Built a SaaS product for employee benefit insurance sales workflows on the MEAN stack (MongoDB, Express, Angular, Node).
Developed a PHP microservice that parsed complex JSON payloads into HTML templates for PDF conversion, and containerized it with Docker.
Stood up AWS deployment pipelines (EC2, Route53, S3, IAM, Elastic Beanstalk) with Jenkins for CI/CD.