Martin Spickermann

Senior Ruby on Rails Software Developer & Principal Engineer with experience in building scalable web applications using the Ruby on Rails framework since 2006.

I bring a wealth of technical expertise to my current role as Principal Engineer at Localyze, where I work remotely from my home office in Bavaria, Germany.

Throughout my career, I have held leading positions at several well-known companies, including Shopify, where I was the backend lead for their new product Linkpop, and Zaikio, where I built their procurement and event platforms and onboarded first customers. At sonnen, I served as the tech lead for their IoT and API applications, and at Compeon, I established the first internal development team and implemented necessary structures. My expertise also extends to my prior experience at Envato in Melbourne and as Babbel's first Lead Developer.

As a dedicated member of the Ruby on Rails community, I have released multiple open-source libraries on Rubygems and contributed to Ruby on Rails. Additionally, I am an active participant on Stack Overflow, where I rank among the all-time top 20 answerers for both the Ruby programming language and the Ruby on Rails framework.