Caleb Martin
Full Stack Software Engineer
Summary
Builder at heart. Programming since 14 years old with 8 years of professional experience in full stack web development, robotics, and machine learning.
Profiles
github
LinkedIn
Experience
Ark Robotics, Inc.
2023/07/15 - present
Founder
I re-founded Ark Robotics, Inc. to make teaching robots simple using generative AI. We are focused on solving high-mix manufacturing and assembly. Our AI learns from human demonstrations making it able to achieve complex manipulation tasks without any programming. I built out our simulation, data pipeline, and core end-to-end trained robotic Visuomotor policy. The core system is built out in Python, Pytorch, and Isaac-sim.
TripSuite
2022/09/01 - 2023/06/15
Founding Full Stack Software Engineer
I joined the TripSuite founding team as a full-stack software engineer to work on their MVP web app. Within 5 months of joining, we successfully built the MVP and onboarded our first customers. Unfortunately, due to TripSuite's incubation by Fractal and subsequent reports of VCs blacklisting Fractal-incubated companies, I was let go. You can read the article here: https://www.businessinsider.com/fractal-vertical-software-startup-venture-studio-ownership-founder-equity-grant-2023-6. Although short-tenured, I helped build lay a solid foundation for the company's future success.
Transistor Bio
01/27/2022-09/01/2022
Senior Full Stack SWE
I joined Transistor Bio as a full-stack software engineer, to take charge of building out the full-stack software solution for digital phenotyping powered by machine learning. The product was built in Python, using Svelte, a front-end client library similar to React. I collaborated closely with the CEO to identify and develop essential features for our early users.
Stealth Robotics Drone Company
2021/03/01 - 2022/01/03
Founder
In early 2021 I founded a robotics company with the vision to free the mind from menial labor by building financially feasible robots that just work. I started with market research to find the best market and problem to build a solution for to support the expenses of building complex robotics hardware. I chose the 20 billion arborist industry due to the dangers to tree service workers, relatively high pay, and similar neighboring industries to branch out to. Self-funded the whole way through I built a drone capable of lifting 40lbs with an onboard computer and a manipulator with the goal of trimming trees while being controlled by someone on the ground. The control problem of cutting a tree with a drone turned out to be far too complex to solve under the limited time and resources, the company was shut down. But I learned a lot about what goes into the harder parts of engineering when solving problems with no obvious solution. The whole project was a complex system of interlocking modules from the remote controller using a React based UI to the low-level C++ code managing the inherent complexities of a dynamic real-time system.
J.B. Hunt Transportation Services, Inc
09/01/2020 - 03/01/2021
Software Engineer 2
I joined the JB-Hunt Carrier 360 team to build the Uber for freight. The app was built with Typescript and React Native. I quickly integrated into the team and became productive within the first month. My day-to-day job was working in a team environment turning Figma mockups into React Native pages.
ICatch
05/02/2019 - 10/01/2020
Full Stack Mobile Engineer
I architected and built the Hook'd fishing competition app from the ground up in NodeJS, GraphQL/Relay, and React Native. The platform was a unified codebase that ran on Ios, Android, and as a web app. I was in charge of everything from talking to customers and converting the founder's vision into a clean usable product with over 30K users.
ServiceTarget
04/01/2017 - 05/01/2019
Junior Full Stack Engineer
I joined as the first full-time engineer and helped bootstrap the company from 60K to over half a million ARR by the time I left. I was involved from start to finish in designing and building the whole system in Java, with an AngularJS/Typescript front end. I learned how to work in a team turning ideas into solutions from architecting to building the system in a tight team with fast release cycles to provide value to millions of daily users.
Education
Highschool
HS Graduate
04/01/2017
Projects
Bolt Pay
A dead simple point of sales system embeddable on any website similar to stripe. It used the bitcoin lightning network for instant transactions and had a management portal for users to create new embeddable widgets for their products and manage their bitcoin. It was just a project to play around with the lightning network so it was never released to the public for use.
Hermes
I built a fully 3D printed heavy lift drone with a web-based UI controller to stream video back to the user over tcp/ip. With 16-inch propellers, it was quite scary flying such a big machine but a great learning experience building a complex system.
Skills
RESTful and Socket programming
NodeJS, ExpressJs
Python
AWS, Serverless, Lamba functions
React
React Native
Postgress
SQL
ElasticSearch
Redis
MongoDB
Agile Development Practices
Embedded development
Linux
SOLID programming practices and system architecture
GPGPU Programming
OOP and Functional Programming
D3JS
ffmpeg/video-streaming
GraphQL
Docker
AngularJS
Reddis
NoSQL
Java
Interests
Software
Certifications
Full Stack SWE Certification
06/01/2017
Free Code Camp
spent early 2017 going through the Free Code Camp Full Stack SWE course
Awards
Grand Champ in Robotics
08/14/2015
H4
Won a 4-H robotics competition in highschool.
Languages
Javascript
C++
Typescript
C
OpenCL
Python
HTML + CSS
Java