Matthew Sevey
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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RockstarMatthew Sevey is a pragmatic engineering leader and founder based in Boston with nine years of software experience, currently serving as Co-Founder and CTO at Arda Global. He pivoted from a mechanical engineering and manufacturing background at Procter & Gamble after learning to code in 2014, bringing process discipline to software teams and hiring practices. Matthew has a strong track record in blockchain and distributed systems—contributing performance-focused backend improvements to NebulousLabs’ Sia decentralized storage project and scaling engineering at Celestia Labs through DevOps re-architecture, a Rollkit release, and the company’s first bug bounty. He also founded My Code Career to coach engineers into new roles, blending hands-on Go/backend engineering, people development, and GitHub-driven automation. An outdoor enthusiast, he pairs practical technical depth with a coach’s empathy and operational rigor.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (12)
storage10
caching10
go10
storages10
sia10
blockchain10
testing10
data-structure9
data-structures9
kernel-modules7
go-modules7
js-modules7
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
NebulousLabs/Sia
Apr 2018 - Jul 2018
Blockchain-based marketplace for file storage. Project has moved to GitLab: https://gitlab.com/NebulousLabs/Sia
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:216 commits, 21 PRs, 138 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily worked on improving the download cache functionality within the Sia blockchain-based file storage system. Their contributions involved refactoring and optimizing the download cache implementation, including creating a dedicated data structure to manage cached chunks and implementing a more efficient approach for handling recently accessed data. The user also addressed bugs within the download cache, fixing failing unit tests. The user's work appears to be centered on improving the performance and efficiency of the Sia file storage system.
marketplacefile-storageblockchaingitlabdecentralized
MSevey/MSevey
Feb 2021 - Mar 2025
Contributions:1 release, 26 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
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