About Martin
Product Engineer
Full-stack engineer with 7+ years of startup experience building revenue-critical systems with end-to-end ownership.
Based in New York
camachom@fastmail.comOr ask my chatbot (bottom right)
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What I work with
Currently
After five years at BuildZoom, I’m exploring new opportunities. I’m building side projects with LLMs and agent-style workflows, spinning up AWS/Terraform infrastructure, and writing about what I learn along the way.
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How much faster is an Alias A record vs a CNAME record on AWS Route 53?
Mar 3, 2026
Empirical DNS resolution times for track.vs.computer: CNAME beat Alias in my test. Why the theoretical 1-lookup advantage didn't show up.
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Threadpull: Building an influence mapper with Claude and LangGraph
Feb 25, 2026
Lessons from building a political influence mapper—workflow, what worked, knob-turning traps, and learning from the codebase after the fact.
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Building a Tracking Pixel
Feb 21, 2026
Implementing a tracking pixel from scratch using AWS API Gateway, Lambda, Kinesis, and S3.
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