Martin has been programming since before programming was trendy, eating Sharp SC61860A machine code for breakfast since before it was healthy, and installed his first Linux system from scratch in 1992 back when it was just Linus Torvalds' glorified terminal emulator.

Currently, as a core developer of Rump Kernels, his interests lie in advancing the state of unikernels on Xen. He has previously presented on Rump Kernels at the New Directions in Operating Systems conference in London, and, in a previous life as one of the co-authors of ZeroMQ, published and presented on building scalable distributed systems and protocols with ZeroMQ.

Martin works as a self-employed consultant, based in Europe.