Martyn Davies

Spreading the good word of SendGrid in the UK & Europe. You'll find me at hack days, conferences, meet-ups and online helping people to integrate the SendGrid APIs into their applications. Responsible for growing adoption and awareness of SendGrid's APIs through technical demonstrations, technical articles, regular public speaking and support of community events across Europe. Addtionally, I contribute to SendGrid's open source programme - managing the libraries developers use to speed up their integrations.

Coordinate the Music Hack Day schedule for the year, attempt to keep it balanced across the world each month. Help new MHD organisers with their first events with collective advice and experience from all other organisers. Additionally, I organise the London Music Hack Day (150-200 people) an the special edition MIDEM Hack Day in Cannes, France.

Advisory role on the progression of the SoundSoftware project based out of Queen Mary University, London.

Leading a small creative technology team building web and mobile applications driven by big data or with a heavy reliance on third party API technology. Six Two acted in an advisory capacity to many major labels on their approach to open data and development of APIs.

Client work included projects for Universal Music Group, Warner Music, PIAS Records, Musixmatch, Webdoc, Sony Music and many others. Including the development of Universal Music's Artist Gateway, the first major label to use an entirely open data powered service for a series of public facing artist pages. (http://www.umusic.co.uk/artists)

Hacking on APIs and technology and generally geeking out for the good of the music industry! Leading mobile application commissioning and development, working on B2B, B2C technology development centrally for the 5 major label groups that make up UMG. Product Manager for UK mobile operations, digital technology joint ventures, 3rd party API integrations and development of internal APIs. Aiding music discovery, distribution and better business process.

Focussing mainly on product management and application of new technologies to enhance BBC Music offerings as well as consulting on music aspects of BBC R&D Prototyping projects and major music festival offerings. Managing the relationship between BBC Music and many third party start ups including evangelising the use, and integration, of 3rd party APIs in public facing BBC content.

Provided technical project management and development support on numerous projects built both in house and in conjunction with independent production companies for BBC Radio 1 and BBC Audio & Music Interactive.

A split role that saw me working across both content production and the integration of new technologies into that process. During this time worked on content production of OneMusic, a site for unsigned musicians and Radio 1's Live Lounge. This also included working in high pressure live environments to turn around content quickly. I was also responsbile for the implementation of flash video backend architecture and original audio segmentation/distribution system that preceded the segmentation options seen in the BBC iPlayer.

Everything from webcasting simultaneous live events in Ibiza on wonky kit with even wonkier ISDN lines, to hand producing live tracklistings for Pete Tong's Essential Selection every Friday (including music clips, 9 years before they really hit bbc.co.uk!). Worked on relaunch of /dance section twice. I also did a lot of code in this time, including an audio player for the original live streams.

Worked on early releases of Worldpop.com as designer and client side developer. Advised IPC Magazines on digital aspects of Muzik Magazine after launching successful new DJ site bedroombedlam.com

Blog

BT Digital Music Award - BBC Introducing - Best Place to Discover Music 2010 UNESCO World Summit Award Best Music Site 2005 Webby's People's Choice Award Best Music Website 2005