{"$schema":"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jsonresume/resume-schema/v1.0.0/schema.json","basics":{"name":"Christopher Martin","label":"Engineering Manager","image":"https://saywise-production-profilepicturestoragebucket-kbfooccc.s3.amazonaws.com/profile-pictures/4d14e96c-30b1-40dd-b79e-0d1ed92b96e9/linkedin-1791246678370.jpg","summary":"I build things. Software, teams, products, and (once upon a time) a book. I'm an engineering manager at Charter Communications leading 18 developers across 3 teams on Spectrum Community Solutions portal. I still write and review code everyday. Before Charter, I co-founded two startups (Granite Signals and MyBasget) where I owned the full product pipeline: customer interviews, UX, prototyping, front-end development, sales. I learned what it takes to build something when there's no PM, no designer, and no one is telling you what comes next. On nights and weekends, I ship AI-native products with Claude Code. SpeechCraft is a portfolio of 8 AI speech-writing tools, built on a config-driven single codebase with Claude API, Stripe, and PostHog. FCK.School is an AI study platform I originally built with GPT-3 in 2022 and have tinkered with ever since. Home Guardian is an AI-powered home diagnostic tool that I'm building with Claude Code. Before all of this, I was a Marine infantryman with combat deployments to Ramadi Iraq and Marjah Afghanistan. I was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal. During the pandemic, I wrote a book about my experiences: Chasing Alexander, reviewed by Kirkus as \"thoughtful... lucid... deeply personal.\" I think this is probably the most exciting time to be working in tech since 1994, and I can't wait to see what happens over the next few years!","location":{"city":"Denver, CO, United States"},"profiles":[{"network":"LinkedIn","username":"chris-martin-dev","url":"https://linkedin.com/in/chris-martin-dev"}]},"meta":{"canonical":"https://saywise.com/member5351","version":"v1.0.0","lastModified":"2026-10-06T00:35:12.337Z"},"x_saywise":{"handle":"member5351","pronouns":null,"availability":null,"oneLiner":"I build things. Software, teams, products, and (once upon a time) a book. I'm an engineering manager at Charter Communications leading 18 developers across 3 teams on Spectrum Community Solutions portal. I still write and review code everyday. Before Charter, I co-founded two startups (Granite Signals and MyBasget) where I owned the full product pipeline: customer interviews, UX, prototyping, front-end development, sales. I learned what it takes to build something when there's no PM, no designer, and no one is telling you what comes next. On nights and weekends, I ship AI-native products with Claude Code. SpeechCraft is a portfolio of 8 AI speech-writing tools, built on a config-driven single codebase with Claude API, Stripe, and PostHog. FCK.School is an AI study platform I originally built with GPT-3 in 2022 and have tinkered with ever since. Home Guardian is an AI-powered home diagnostic tool that I'm building with Claude Code. Before all of this, I was a Marine infantryman with combat deployments to Ramadi Iraq and Marjah Afghanistan. I was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal. During the pandemic, I wrote a book about my experiences: Chasing Alexander, reviewed by Kirkus as \"thoughtful... lucid... deeply personal.\" I think this is probably the most exciting time to be working in tech since 1994, and I can't wait to see what happens over the next few years!","profileUrl":"https://saywise.com/member5351","markdownUrl":"https://saywise.com/member5351/profile.md","pdfUrl":"https://saywise.com/member5351/resume.pdf","archetype":{"code":"HB-DG","name":"All-Terrain Navigator","url":"https://saywise.com/sca/7cc22393dcc7","rarity":"One of the first All-Terrain Navigators on Saywise"}},"work":[{"name":"Charter Communications","position":"Software Engineering Manager","location":"Denver, Colorado, United States","startDate":"2025-02-01","summary":"Leading 18 developers across 3 teams (Denver, Chennai, Bangalore) on the Spectrum Community Solutions portal. Charter's B2B platform serving property managers who oversee hundreds of properties and thousands of units. Key work: - Redesigned portal architecture from per-property credentials (customers managing 200 separate logins) to a unified multi-property access system with hierarchical user permissions. - Built AI-assisted code review pipeline using spec-based automated reviews (leveraging Amazon Q), cutting the onshore review bottleneck for 14 offshore developers and enabling teams to self-serve on style, convention, and logic checks. - Still hands-on: personally architect complex features including a cross-team API interceptor that dynamically enriched other teams' APIs with data while requiring zero changes to other teams' codebases. Promoted to EM after being promoted from SWE to Sr SWE in my first year. Two significant promotions in 2 years."},{"name":"Charter Communications","position":"Senior Software Engineer","location":"Denver, Colorado, United States","startDate":"2023-03-01","endDate":"2025-02-01","summary":"Led a team of 4 developers building a new Service Appointments feature for Spectrum's enterprise portal. - Feature saved Charter ~$12M annually by reducing unnecessary truck rolls — impact confirmed by business stakeholders and announced at VP all-hands - Owned technical architecture, sprint planning, code reviews, and stakeholder communication for this feature - Promoted to Engineering Manager after 11 months to take over a larger, growing team"},{"name":"Granite Signals Corp.","position":"Co-Founder","url":"https://granitesignals.com","startDate":"2018-01-01","endDate":"2022-07-01","summary":"Co-founded a drone detection and monitoring platform for correctional facilities. Owned the full product pipeline: product vision, UX design, front-end development, customer research, sales, and go-to-market. - Conducted 100+ stakeholder interviews with corrections officials across multiple states to validate product-market fit and refine requirements - Invited speaker at the Tennessee Correctional Association's 2019 annual convention on drone threats and detection technology - Built multi-tenant web application with 3-tier access controls and customer-specific subdomains - Navigated the full complexity of government sales cycles — appropriations, legislative approval, competitive bidding, multi-stage procurement — gaining an understanding of enterprise distribution challenges - Learned the hardest startup lesson firsthand: strong product-market signal doesn't close deals when the distribution channel is structurally broken"},{"name":"MyBasget","position":"Co-Founder","url":"https://mybasget.com","startDate":"2015-06-01","endDate":"2017-12-01","summary":"Co-founded a two-sided marketplace connecting grocery shoppers with stores looking to reduce food waste (~$2,000/day per store in spoilage). - Led customer research with shoppers and store managers — conducted interviews, built wireframes, iterated on prototypes based on user feedback - Built mobile apps and web portal for both consumer and B2B sides of the marketplace - Ran targeted user testing for the consumer app; created and mailed promotional materials to grocery executives nationwide for B2B outreach - Secured calls with CMOs and CTOs at regional grocery chains to validate store-side requirements for data, reporting, and integration"},{"name":"J.P. Morgan","position":"Summer Analyst","location":"New York City Metropolitan Area","url":"https://jpmorgan.com","startDate":"2014-06-01","endDate":"2014-08-01","summary":"- Worked on a Solutions Team in Custody and Fund Services. - Assisted in a multi-divisional effort to launch a new series of funds."},{"name":"United States Marine Corps","position":"Infantry Squad Leader","url":"https://marines.mil","startDate":"2007-07-01","endDate":"2011-05-01","summary":"United States Marine Corps, 2nd Battalion 9th Marines (2/9). Infantry. Two combat deployments. - Squad Leader in Marjah, Afghanistan during Operation Moshtarak. Led 12 Marines on 100+ combat patrols. Zero casualties in my squad despite a 20-25% unit-wide casualty rate - Served as Company Level Intelligence Cell Assistant Chief in Ramadi, Iraq — prepared intelligence products and analysis that led to the creation of 40+ target packages and capture of 9 high-value individuals - Awarded Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal for intelligence work in Iraq"}],"education":[{"institution":"Denison University","studyType":"Bachelor’s Degree in Economics","startDate":"2011-08-01","endDate":"2015-05-01"}],"projects":[{"name":"Speech Craft","description":"Portfolio of 8 AI-powered speech-writing tools — wedding vows, eulogies, toasts, retirement speeches. Each tool is live, integrated with Stripe for payments, and instrumented with PostHog for product analytics. Built on a config-driven single codebase architecture: one Next.js application generates all 8 branded sites from configuration files. Claude API powers the speech generation. Built solo. Sites: - herlovingvows.com, - hislovingvows.com, - cheerstothegroom.com, - eulogyessence.com, - retirementremarks.com, - afatherstoast.com, - herperfectspeech.com, - wordsfrommom.com"},{"name":"Home Guardian","description":"AI-powered home diagnostic platform: \"a doctor for your house.\" Symptom-based diagnosis, persistent home health record, Home Health Score mapped to home value impact, predictive maintenance via anonymized \"home twin\" clustering. Built with Claude Code, Supabase, Next.js (marketing site), React Native (mobile apps), Expo. MVP ~75% complete."},{"name":"FCK.School","description":"AI-powered study platform — a modern, AI-native alternative to SparkNotes. Built to learn programmatic SEO at scale: thousands of dynamically generated pages covering book summaries, analysis, and study materials. Originally built with GPT-3 API in 2022 (when token limits were ~100 tokens). Iterated through multiple model generations. $4K lifetime revenue. Site: fck.school"}],"skills":[{"name":"Anthropic Claude"},{"name":"Claude Skills"},{"name":"Model Context Protocol (MCP)"},{"name":"Marketing"},{"name":"Full-Stack Development"},{"name":"Sales"},{"name":"People Management"},{"name":"Stakeholder Management"},{"name":"AI Product Development"},{"name":"Engineering Management"},{"name":"Agentic AI Development"},{"name":"Agentic Workflows"},{"name":"Software Development"},{"name":"NgRx"},{"name":"Angular"},{"name":"Customer Development"},{"name":"HTML"},{"name":"Front-End Development"},{"name":"Ionic Framework"},{"name":"Bootstrap"},{"name":"Product Development"},{"name":"Web Development"},{"name":"Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)"},{"name":"Apache Cordova"},{"name":"JavaScript"},{"name":"Mobile Applications"},{"name":"Financial Modeling"},{"name":"Leadership"},{"name":"Strategic Planning"},{"name":"Tactical Operations"},{"name":"Military Experience"},{"name":"Intelligence Analysis"},{"name":"Infantry Tactics"},{"name":"Google Adwords"},{"name":"Microsoft Office"},{"name":"Microsoft Excel"},{"name":"Microsoft Word"},{"name":"PowerPoint"},{"name":"Research"},{"name":"Teamwork"},{"name":"Public Speaking"},{"name":"English"},{"name":"RxJS"}],"certificates":[{"name":"Building Agentic AI Applications with a Problem-First Approach","date":"2026-03-01","issuer":"Maven"}],"awards":[{"title":"President's Medal","date":"2015-04-01","awarder":"Denison University","summary":"Denison's highest award. The preeminent criterion for receipt of a President’s Medal, which was established in 1985, is academic achievement. In addition, candidates must embody some combination of the following: service to the community, contribution to the arts, enlargement of the community’s global perspective, athletic fitness and achievement, leadership ability and contribution to community discourse."},{"title":"Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal","date":"2009-04-01","awarder":"United States Marine Corps","summary":"For professional achievement in the superior performance of his duties while serving as Company Level Intelligence Cell Assistant Chief, Headquarters Platoon, Weapons Company, Task Force 2d Battalion, 9th Marines, Regimental Combat Team 6, II Marine Expeditionary Force (forward) from 24 September 2008 to 15 April 2009 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. During this period, Lance Corporal Martin performed his duties in an exceptional and highly proficient manner. He expertly prepared intelligence products and intelligence summaries that directly impacted the overall successes of the company's counterinsurgency operations. His technical abilities and analysis of raw data aided in the creation of over forty target packages for suspected insurgents and led to the capture of nine High Value Individuals. He displayed a high level of analytical proficiency in the production of a comprehensive brief and link analysis chart that detailed the movement of improvised explosive devices throughout the battalion's area of operations. Lance Corporal Martin's initiative, perseverance and total dedication to duty reflected credit upon him and were in keeping with highest traditions of the Marine Corps and the United States Naval Service."}],"publications":[{"name":"Chasing Alexander: A Marine's Journey Across Iraq and Afghanistan","summary":"\"Martin's memoir is as thoughtful as it is lucid, and is written in a deeply personal, confessional style, probing and self-effacing.\" - Kirkus Reviews This is my memoir about my time in the US Marine Corps, and my deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan."}]}