Martin Bechtle - Professional Profile

Hands on Software Engineer and Technical Leader, Crypto enthusiast

Experienced Back End Developer with Lead experience. Specialised in Fintech. Agile enthusiast, skilled in Distributed Systems, Microservice Architecture, DevOps, BDD/TDD, Golang, JVM (Java/Kotlin), CI/CD, Amazon Web Services.

Experience

Harbour

CTO Advisor

Oct 2024 – Present

United Kingdom

Canary Protocol

Technical Lead

Sep 2024 – Present

United Kingdom

Building the first multi-chain restaking protocol

Harbour

Chief Technology Officer

Oct 2022 – Oct 2024

United Kingdom

Built the fastest and cheapest crypto on- and off-ramping platform in the world! Less than one minute from receiving an instant bank payment, to crypto in your wallet. Tech: ReactJS, ReactNative, Golang, AWS, Kubernetes, DataDog, Pulumi, Temporal, Postgres, MPC wallets, blockchain node RPCs, bankin...

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Coinbase

Senior Software Engineer

Dec 2021 – Aug 2024

Crypto Asset Staking Building automated workflows for asset staking and reward tracking. Tech: Golang, AWS, Postgres, gRPC, Kubernetes, DataDog, Cadence, Temporal

Upvest

Software Engineering Team Lead

May 2021 – Nov 2021

Berlin, Germany

Building a REST API to allow easy access to investing, trading and portfolios. Working on core-banking business logic and architecture. Go microservices on Google Cloud Platform's Kubernetes engine. GitHub Actions pipeline, Kafka, Postgres.

B2C2

Senior Software Engineer

Mar 2021 – Apr 2021

London, England, United Kingdom

Cryptocurrency algotrading and exchange integrations. Java 11, Redis, Drone CI.

FREENOW

Senior Backend Engineer

Jun 2020 – Feb 2021

Athens, Attiki, Greece

TaxiBeat, now a FreeNow company. Payments domain - customer payin and payout automation, payment gateways. Go microservices on AWS with Aurora MySQL, Kafka, SNS/SQS. Helm deployments on Docker, Terragrunt for IaaS.

Sainsbury's

Squad Lead / Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2020 – Jun 2020

City of London, England, United Kingdom

Active role in designing and developing a unified Single-sign-on system to connect all Sainsbury's products under one user account

Squirrel Financial Wellbeing

Chief Technology Officer

Sep 2019 – Dec 2019

London, United Kingdom

Back to Startup! Building a personal finance management tool from scratch with Golang, Google Kubernetes Engine, Google Cloud Platform, Terraform and React Native.

Accenture

Tech Lead / Senior Software Engineer

Nov 2018 – Sep 2019

London, United Kingdom

Working at InfinityWorks, now an Accenture company. Leading a team of DevOps and React Native engineers building a new Fintech app. Using Java, Kotlin, gRPC, Avro, Terraform, AWS, EKS, SNS/SQS, Kubernetes, Helm, Linkerd, Prometheus, Elasticsearch, Grafana, Kibana, CircleCI, Aurora Serverless.

Tide

Lead backend engineer

May 2016 – Oct 2018

London, United Kingdom

Exciting fintech with an ever growing appetite for APIs to support its mobile and web apps. Leading a wonderful team of backend engineers and having fun with Java, Spring and AWS.

Freelancer

Sep 2011 – Apr 2016

Palermo