~/martin.carlin/index

$ whoami

martincarlin

// role

Software engineer in Glasgow, building long-running products in Laravel and React since 2011. Currently shipping AI document verification at Fastdox; side projects in the evenings; bass in a wedding band on weekends.

send.messagecat ./about →

// try it

For the impatient. The server requests this page as curl; you'll see what it sees. Try it yourself in your own terminal.

martin@carlin: ~ · press enter to run
$ curl martincarlin.uk

// currently

  • shippingAI document verification at Fastdox — Laravel 13 + Inertia
  • buildingPlantfitter — Laravel 13, Inertia 3, React 19, full GitHub Actions CI
  • offlineBass in a wedding band touring Scotland · PUBG & EAFC · one Husky and three Ragdoll cats

// log

tail -f
career.log

  1. 2026 →Senior dev at Fastdox · Laravel 13 + Inertia + React · AI document verification
  2. 2023–25Senior dev at CultureAI · PHP 8.3 + Laravel 11 microservices · Vue 3 + Inertia · AWS Bedrock GenAI features
  3. 2020–22Tech lead at Product Guru · Stripe · Jitsi virtual events · Hubspot migration · React Native
  4. 2019–20Senior at Cyberhawk Innovations · Drone imagery tooling in Go · Laravel proof-of-concept rewrites
  5. 2018–19Software dev at Valipat / Envoy / Delegate / IPAN · refactoring legacy code, AWS migrations
  6. 2016–18Web app dev at TOM Vehicle Rental · Customer Portal, Fleet Manager, offline-first checksheets
  7. 2013–16Sole dev at Commsworld · Ruby on Rails CRM · EchoSign integration · ISO 27001 tooling
  8. 2011–13Web dev at Optical Express · marketing campaigns, landing pages, the odd Facebook app