2018
Learning to build
Began professionally at Describe Web Technologies Ltd as an intern working with PHP and Laravel — after building a forum and blog platform for the Faculty of Science Students Association in my own time.
// — ABOUT / the person
👋 Hi, I’m Martins.
I work across software engineering, AI, SaaS, infrastructure, and emerging technology, with a focus on creating useful systems that help businesses understand more, decide faster, and do better work.
018+
Years building software
0220+
Client sites shipped
033
Web3 projects built
04∞
Curiosity
Where it started
chapter — the start
A curiosity-driven career across web development, SaaS, Web3, infrastructure, automation, and AI-native applications — always understanding how things actually work.
The road so far
through the years / 01 — 08
2019
Building for real users
Took on real-world projects and became responsible for maintaining and improving 10+ client websites — SEO, performance, customizations, and the continuous maintenance real software requires.
2021
From websites to software
Moved beyond sites into standalone Laravel applications: student research repositories, automated billing systems, event and venue booking platforms, and other custom apps — pushing deeper into architecture, databases, and system design.
2022
Exploring Web3
Developed software for Ogasa, including OgasaSwap and OgasaCEX — encountering blockchain integrations, financial workflows, decentralized systems, and rapidly evolving infrastructure.
2023
Going deeper
Concentrated on BluuPay, a much larger and more ambitious project. Large products force you to think in systems — scalability, reliability, and maintainability stop being theoretical.
2024
Modern full-stack engineering
Shifted heavily toward the modern TypeScript ecosystem — Next.js, NestJS, and TypeScript — while growing interest in deployment, containers, Kubernetes, and production architecture.
2025
The shift toward AI
Explored emerging technologies like Bun while going much deeper into AI automation — interested in what happens when applications can reason, use tools, and work alongside their users.
2026
Building AI-native software
Working with emerging AI frameworks and tools such as Mastra, eve.dev, and Assistant UI — exploring bespoke applications including ChatWith and SociallyMe, where AI is part of the architecture rather than a feature bolted on.
// beyond the code
There's more to me than software.
the human bit
01
I'm naturally curious about people, ideas, businesses, and the world around me. I enjoy learning simply because there is always something else worth understanding — and some of the most interesting lessons have little to do with code.
02
I'm drawn to people and communities: meeting different kinds of people, exchanging ideas, collaborating, teaching, mentoring, and helping others find their way through problems. Knowledge becomes more valuable when it can be shared.
03
Curiosity also shapes how I work. I'm rarely satisfied with knowing that something works; I want to understand why it works, whether it can be better, and what might be possible beyond it.
04
I'm particularly interested in entrepreneurship and solving meaningful problems — less in building something simply because it can be built, more in understanding what deserves to exist in the first place.
05
Ultimately, I'm building more than a career. Software is one of the tools I have chosen to make a difference — but the bigger goal has always been impact.
the work keeps me sharp — the rest keeps me human
Start a conversationWhat they say
03 / 5★ avg
Payments now reconcile themselves. What used to be a nightly chase for drift between gateways and our ledger is a dashboard we can trust, and transaction validation happens fast enough that customers never feel it.
The manuscript workflow removed the guesswork from peer review. Authors, reviewers, and editors each see exactly what they should, reviewer anonymity holds end to end, and every editorial decision leaves a trail we can audit.
Milestones, budgets, and buyer payments finally live in one place. Site progress updates and investor reports that once took days of assembling are now generated from the system, and nothing slips between departments.
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