Marta Poling is a Software Engineer at Vannevar Labs. She possess expertise in javascript, node.js, react.js, express.js, sql and 14 more skills. Colleagues describe her as "Marta was my direct supervisor at Merlin Labs/Homeservices, Inc. In 25 years of software development, I've been lucky in my previous changes of employment, whether I've moved on to better opportunities or my company has unfortunately closed its doors, in that they've all ended up having positive results for me. Coming to Merlin Labs from my previous job was no exception. However, now that we're closing, it's hard to see how my next job is likely to be better, and working with Marta was a big part of that. She's extremely technically knowledgeable, super smart, a really good manager, detail-oriented, relentlessly upbeat and friendly, and extremely patient and helpful with new developers (like me) in learning Merlin Labs systems and building out features. When my son was taking improv acting classes, there was a phrase they lived by that embodied the cooperative spirit, and it was to find a way to always say "yes, and..." when brainstorming or finding cooperative solutions in any arena (like acting or code pairing). Not "no, but", not even "yes, but". Martha is a "yes, and" person, more so than most people I've ever met. She's the kind of person that if you brought a coding problem to her, even though her suggestions might end up making you say "Oh, I didn't think of that. I'll adapt what I've got to do it that way instead!", she made the entire interaction collaborative, rewarding, and a mutual building of ideas and knowledge, whether it was actual code pairing or PR review, rather than just handing down knowledge. This is why she was able to be a good technical manager well beyond knowing all the nuts and bolts really well. Having great tech skills is really only half of being a great developer or manager of developers: unless you're working all by yourself, your value is largely measured by how much you raise the team, and as both a manager and a coder, she did that for our team. And as a people manager, she gave me as much opportunity as I needed to talk about how my work was going. She always made me feel like I was part of the team, that my feelings and opinions were valid, and that the company valued me both professionally and personally. I really had fun working with Marta. I wish we could have worked together longer. : /", "Marta is one of the most thoughtful, articulate and passionate engineers I have ever had the pleasure to work with. She has been a crucial member of our team over the last three years, and directly contributed to hundreds of feature launches. She led our search experience engineering team and was responsible for laying out the foundation for our map-based search, filters system, clustering, location-based search, custom boundary drawing and much more. Not only is she a strong individual contributor, but she also is a fantastic engineering manager. She does not give orders or tell her team how to solve problems. Instead, she stands shoulder to shoulder with them and helps the team collectively reach a solution that everyone understands and agrees with. In this way, her team is always on the same page having reached a decision together and understanding all of the reasons that led to that decision. Marta also possesses both business and product understanding. Due to her ability to keep track of the product goals and direction and couple those with the technical details, she has become a pillar for our company being able to communicate at all levels of the organization. She knows how to raise technical concerns to our product and business team, as well as when to really focus on a technical challenge because she is aware of the impact of that piece on the overall product. All of these traits add up to make Marta a formidable technical leader. I highly recommend working with Marta. She will have a positive impact on the culture and impact of your team.", and "Marta is an extraordinary software engineer and manager. She approaches every problem with a combination of high-level technical acumen combined with entrepreneurial consideration. She uses her experience in business to make better product and engineering decisions, and to lead her team to deliver products that people love. She is an amazing leader that people love to work with."