Bonnie Mattson
Senior Software Engineer at Gusto
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBonnie Mattson is a senior software engineer with 12 years of experience building reliable billing, payments, and API-driven systems across startups and scale-ups in the Greater Seattle area. She has led complex billing migrations and decompositions—moving Zuora-backed pricing to Orb at Netlify and breaking a legacy monolith into microservices at BigCommerce—while improving reliability and reducing on-call noise through pragmatic engineering and monitoring. Comfortable across Ruby, Go, Python, and cloud platforms, she blends hands-on implementation with technical design, vendor coordination, and cross-functional leadership. An active open-source contributor, Bonnie has improved internationalization and authentication UX for a mental-health web app and performed careful architecture-level cleanups in community projects. Her background spans everything from computational chemistry research to teaching and freelance prototyping, reflecting a practical curiosity that surfaces in production-grade abstractions and developer tooling.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
AS Biology Chemistry, AS Biology Chemistry at Seattle Central CollegeTheater Computer Science, Theater Computer Science at Western Washington University
Github Skills (19)
ruby-rails10
devise10
rails-i18n10
back-end-development10
rails10
ruby10
ember-i18n10
html10
i18n-js10
backend10
ruby-on-rails10
database-migrations9
database-migration9
pullrequest8
scs8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ifmeorg/ifme
Dec 2016 - Dec 2016
Free, open source mental health communication web app to share experiences with loved ones
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:30 commits, 7 PRs, 84 pushes in 17 days
Contributions summary:Bonnie primarily focused on internationalization (i18n) and localization efforts within the application, adding and modifying language files for Devise related views. They updated various views to use internationalized strings, and also contributed to front-end elements related to user authentication and registration such as user login and sign-up pages, and made changes to the profile section. These changes indicate a focus on improving the user experience and making the application accessible to a wider audience.
mental-healthjestcapybarareact-testing-librarycommunity-driven
24pullrequests/24pullrequests
Dec 2016 - Dec 2016
:christmas_tree: Giving back to open source for the holidays
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Bonnie's contributions focused on removing integrations related to a service named "Coderwall" from the codebase. The user deleted assets, views, models, routes, and database migrations associated with this service, indicating a complete removal. The work involved modifying Ruby on Rails files, reflecting a clean-up and refactoring effort within the application's structure. The changes touched multiple parts of the system, suggesting a good understanding of the project's architecture.
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