Mat Brown
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
Town of Mount Pleasant, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMat Brown is a Senior Software Engineer with 17 years of experience building full-stack web and mobile applications, currently focused on Ruby and JavaScript at Datadog. He’s shipped platform-agnostic libraries and extensible SDKs—most notably leading the File Viewer SDK and Plugin API at Dropbox—and has driven search and indexing work across projects using Solr, ElasticSearch, Cassandra and PostgreSQL. A pragmatic engineering lead and frequent code reviewer, he has a track record of turning prototypes into production products (e.g., Genius’s Web Annotator) and improving test infrastructures, including refactoring Sunspot’s Ruby Solr test suite. Based in Mount Pleasant, NY, he combines deep back-end systems experience with front-end frameworks like React and Angular, and a habit of open-sourcing integrations (Cequel, Elastictastic) that bridge storage and search at scale.
17 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Computer Science, Linguistics, B.A., Computer Science, Linguistics at Dartmouth College
Stackoverflow
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19answers
6questions
solr
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Github Skills (12)
testing10
solr-search10
search-engine10
solr10
test-unit10
unit-test10
ruby10
faceted-search6
sunspot6
many-to-many6
cassandra6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
sunspot/sunspot
Nov 2008 - Aug 2011
Solr-powered search for Ruby objects
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:64 commits in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Mat primarily focused on refactoring and enhancing the testing framework within the Sunspot project, a Ruby-based Solr search engine. They migrated existing specifications to a new testing framework based on Test::Unit, Matchy, and RR. The user's work included writing and modifying tests to cover various search functionalities and indexer behavior. This involved mocking Solr connections and verifying the correct construction of Solr queries.
searchrubysolrsolr-search-enginesunspot
outoftime/eager_record
Sep 2011 - Dec 2015
Contributions:12 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 4 years 3 months
associationrailsrubyresult-setactiverecord
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