resume.json

{
  "basics": {
    "name": "Martin Donadieu",
    "label": "Solo founder, mobile engineer, and open-source maintainer",
    "email": "martin@capgo.app",
    "phone": "+33651316427",
    "website": "https://martin.solos.ventures/",
    "summary": "Solo founder and open-source mobile engineer with 10+ years of experience building products from MVP to scale. I have shipped more than 30 apps across mobile, web, and data platforms, including products used by more than 10M monthly users. I founded Capgo, contribute to the Capacitor ecosystem, maintain 10+ plugins, and work end-to-end across product, engineering, developer tooling, and growth in bootstrapped businesses.",
    "location": {
      "city": "Ribeira Brava",
      "countryCode": "PT",
      "region": "Madeira"
    },
    "profiles": [
      {
        "network": "LinkedIn",
        "username": "martindonadieu",
        "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/martindonadieu"
      },
      {
        "network": "GitHub",
        "username": "riderx",
        "url": "https://github.com/riderx"
      },
      {
        "network": "Capgo",
        "username": "capgo",
        "url": "https://capgo.app"
      },
      {
        "network": "Website",
        "username": "martin.solos.ventures",
        "url": "https://martin.solos.ventures/"
      }
    ]
  },
  "work": [
    {
      "company": "Capgo",
      "position": "Solo Founder",
      "website": "https://capgo.app",
      "startDate": "2021-12-01",
      "summary": "Built Capgo, the live-update platform for Capacitor apps, as a solo, bootstrapped, open-source business. Capgo is now used in more than 5,000 apps and reaches 50M devices monthly.",
      "highlights": [
        "Created the live-update workflow for Capacitor apps outside the Ionic ecosystem.",
        "Enabled mobile teams to ship live bug fixes, content updates, and feature rollouts without waiting for app store review cycles.",
        "Built the product from scratch around Supabase, Vue.js, Ionic, and Capacitor based on real delivery pain from client projects."
      ]
    },
    {
      "company": "Solos Podcast",
      "position": "Host",
      "website": "https://solos.ventures",
      "startDate": "2022-12-01",
      "summary": "Weekly podcast focused on the reality of building profitable solo businesses.",
      "highlights": [
        "Created the show end-to-end, from positioning and guest sourcing to recording, publishing, and distribution.",
        "Built a recurring content engine around solo founders and bootstrapped builders."
      ]
    },
    {
      "company": "INDIE MAKERS",
      "position": "Host",
      "website": "https://indiemakers.fr",
      "startDate": "2019-09-01",
      "endDate": "2025-01-01",
      "summary": "French podcast dedicated to indie makers and profitable bootstrapped businesses.",
      "highlights": [
        "Launched and grew the first French podcast dedicated to indie makers and bootstrapped entrepreneurship.",
        "Handled guest sourcing, episode summaries, website work, and publishing."
      ]
    },
    {
      "company": "naas.ai",
      "position": "Open Source Core Team",
      "website": "https://naas.ai",
      "startDate": "2020-12-01",
      "endDate": "2024-12-01",
      "summary": "Open-source notebooks-as-a-service platform for automating data workflows.",
      "highlights": [
        "Contributed to the open-source core team behind Naas and its automation-centric notebook platform.",
        "Worked on tooling that helped data teams script faster with low-code Python workflows and automation."
      ]
    },
    {
      "company": "Captime.app",
      "position": "Solo Maker",
      "startDate": "2018-01-01",
      "endDate": "2024-01-01",
      "summary": "Independent CrossFit timer app built and shipped as a paid product.",
      "highlights": [
        "Shipped a paid mobile app with more than 20,000 downloads.",
        "Added voice control and a mobile-friendly workout timer experience for athletes.",
        "Built with Firebase, Angular, Ionic, and Capacitor."
      ]
    },
    {
      "company": "Forgr",
      "position": "Founder / Maker",
      "website": "https://forgr.ee",
      "startDate": "2017-02-01",
      "endDate": "2024-01-01",
      "summary": "MVP studio focused on shipping mobile products quickly for founders.",
      "highlights": [
        "Led client delivery, sales, product scoping, and engineering to bring products to market in as little as four weeks.",
        "Worked on more than 30 applications across the studio, including products that later reached 10M+ monthly users.",
        "Standardized delivery around Firebase, Angular, Ionic, and AWS."
      ]
    },
    {
      "company": "Timeleft",
      "position": "CTO",
      "startDate": "2021-05-01",
      "endDate": "2021-09-01",
      "summary": "Bucket-list and social product designed to turn dreams into shared goals and memorable experiences.",
      "highlights": [
        "Led product development with the agency partner and aligned the engineering team for a potential fundraise.",
        "Built around React Native and Firebase."
      ]
    },
    {
      "company": "Bucephal Digital",
      "position": "CTO",
      "startDate": "2021-04-01",
      "endDate": "2021-07-01",
      "summary": "Algorithmic crypto investment company focused on operational stability.",
      "highlights": [
        "Rebuilt the technical stack and engineering processes to make production systems more reliable.",
        "Trained teams on better technical practices using Python, Docker, and Google Cloud."
      ]
    },
    {
      "company": "CashStory",
      "position": "Associate CTO",
      "startDate": "2018-12-01",
      "endDate": "2021-03-01",
      "summary": "Modern financial data workspace built around Python, Jupyter, and automation.",
      "highlights": [
        "Built and operated a large internal data platform spanning more than 50 Docker-based machines.",
        "Created services around Jupyter, APIs, FTP, dashboards, authentication, and data pipelines to move finance teams from Excel workflows to Python automation.",
        "Worked across Docker, Kubernetes, Angular, .NET, MySQL, MongoDB, Postgres, Redis, Snowflake, Prometheus, and Caddy."
      ]
    },
    {
      "company": "LK Stats",
      "position": "Solo Maker",
      "startDate": "2020-02-01",
      "endDate": "2021-01-01",
      "summary": "Analytics product for understanding LinkedIn post performance.",
      "highlights": [
        "Built the product to solve my own social-selling analytics gap and later released it publicly.",
        "Used Vue.js, Firebase, and Puppeteer to collect and expose performance insights."
      ]
    },
    {
      "company": "Fairwai",
      "position": "Technical Lead",
      "startDate": "2018-05-01",
      "endDate": "2019-01-01",
      "summary": "Sales proposal web app with integrated chat and chatbot support.",
      "highlights": [
        "Delivered the MVP through Forgr, then led the technical roadmap for the V2 based on user feedback.",
        "Built with Firebase, AWS Lambda, Angular, and Dialogflow."
      ]
    },
    {
      "company": "Wild Code School",
      "position": "JavaScript Instructor",
      "startDate": "2018-02-01",
      "endDate": "2018-08-01",
      "summary": "Intensive web development bootcamp focused on JavaScript.",
      "highlights": [
        "Taught web development, project delivery, TDD, teamwork, and technical best practices during a five-month cohort.",
        "Served as an approved jury member for the RNCP 'Developpeur Web et Web Mobile' qualification."
      ]
    },
    {
      "company": "Toucan Toco",
      "position": "Lead QA",
      "startDate": "2017-06-01",
      "endDate": "2017-11-01",
      "summary": "Data storytelling platform for business analytics.",
      "highlights": [
        "Joined as the first QA engineer to establish testing practices and automation for a highly configurable product.",
        "Recommended a developer-owned quality model after evaluating the limits of end-to-end automation in a non-deterministic environment."
      ]
    },
    {
      "company": "You2You",
      "position": "Mobile Engineer",
      "website": "http://you2you.fr",
      "startDate": "2016-07-01",
      "endDate": "2017-07-01",
      "summary": "Courier mobile app for urban delivery and real-time dispatch.",
      "highlights": [
        "Built the courier application from prototype to production with real-time tracking, assignment, notifications, in-app signatures, and ratings.",
        "Reached more than 30,000 downloads in the first year, more than 2,000 monthly active users, and a 4.6 store rating.",
        "Shipped with Ionic, Cordova, AngularJS, Node.js, Gulp, SCSS, and PM2."
      ]
    },
    {
      "company": "You2You",
      "position": "Full Stack Engineer",
      "website": "http://you2you.fr",
      "startDate": "2015-08-01",
      "endDate": "2016-07-01",
      "summary": "First engineer responsible for taking the business from spreadsheet operations to productized logistics software.",
      "highlights": [
        "Built the initial MVP in three days and migrated operations from Google Sheets to a web app within a week.",
        "Designed the core API, administered servers, and helped the company get ready for TheFamily and its first VC funding.",
        "Hired the first five developers to scale the platform."
      ]
    },
    {
      "company": "Bress Healthcare",
      "position": "Lead Developer",
      "startDate": "2014-07-01",
      "endDate": "2015-06-01",
      "summary": "Digital tools for orthoptists and early telemedicine products.",
      "highlights": [
        "Built the first Bress application and helped the product reach roughly 5,000 users in a market of about 7,000 practitioners.",
        "Defined the technical stack, modular architecture, CNIL-aligned practices, and Agile, SCRUM, and TDD workflows.",
        "Worked with Node.js, AngularJS, Redmine, and GitLab."
      ]
    },
    {
      "company": "EPITECH - European Institute of Technology",
      "position": "C/C++ Instructor",
      "startDate": "2014-02-01",
      "endDate": "2015-02-01",
      "summary": "Mentored students and built support systems for struggling cohorts.",
      "highlights": [
        "Created projects, tools, hosting, and technical support for first- and second-year students.",
        "Organized summer camps, talks, project reviews, and learning support around C, C++, and shell."
      ]
    },
    {
      "company": "Creoze SAS",
      "position": "Web Developer",
      "website": "http://creoze.fr",
      "startDate": "2012-06-01",
      "endDate": "2014-07-01",
      "summary": "Early entrepreneurship and client delivery across web projects.",
      "highlights": [
        "Co-founded the venture with a childhood friend and handled web delivery, finance, prospecting, contracts, and invoicing.",
        "Built client websites primarily on WordPress and PHP."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "volunteer": [],
  "education": [
    {
      "institution": "EPITECH - European Institute of Technology",
      "area": "Information Technology",
      "studyType": "Bachelor",
      "startDate": "2012-09-01",
      "endDate": "2015-06-01",
      "courses": []
    },
    {
      "institution": "Laurea University of Applied Sciences",
      "area": "Information Technology / Management Information Systems",
      "studyType": "Project Manager degree",
      "startDate": "2015-09-01",
      "endDate": "2016-06-01",
      "courses": []
    },
    {
      "institution": "Join Lion",
      "area": "Entrepreneurship",
      "studyType": "Entrepreneurship program",
      "startDate": "2014-09-01",
      "endDate": "2015-06-01",
      "courses": []
    }
  ],
  "awards": [],
  "publications": [],
  "skills": [
    {
      "name": "Mobile & Frontend",
      "level": "Expert",
      "keywords": [
        "Capacitor",
        "Ionic",
        "Cordova",
        "JavaScript",
        "TypeScript",
        "AngularJS",
        "Vue.js",
        "React Native"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Backend & Data",
      "level": "Expert",
      "keywords": [
        "Node.js",
        "Python",
        "Firebase",
        "Supabase",
        "Jupyter",
        "PostgreSQL",
        "MongoDB",
        "Redis",
        "Snowflake"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Cloud & Delivery",
      "level": "Advanced",
      "keywords": [
        "Docker",
        "Kubernetes",
        "AWS",
        "Google Cloud",
        "CI/CD",
        "PM2",
        "Caddy"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Product & Leadership",
      "level": "Advanced",
      "keywords": [
        "MVP delivery",
        "Bootstrapping",
        "Product strategy",
        "Developer tooling",
        "Hiring",
        "Team leadership"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "languages": [
    {
      "language": "French",
      "fluency": "Native speaker"
    },
    {
      "language": "English",
      "fluency": "Professional working proficiency"
    }
  ],
  "interests": [
    {
      "name": "Open source",
      "keywords": [
        "Capacitor",
        "developer tools",
        "mobile delivery"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Podcasting",
      "keywords": [
        "solo businesses",
        "bootstrapping",
        "founder stories"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Climbing",
      "keywords": [
        "indoor",
        "outdoor"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "references": [
    {
      "name": "Ghislain Bourgin",
      "reference": "Martin is the technical cornerstone that allowed us to build and iterate to get You2You from a Google Sheet to a viable app in the App Store, actually delivering thousands of parcels. He is a self-driven individual that is at his best when constantly fed with new projects and learning opportunities."
    }
  ]
}