Mateo Murphy
CTO at viinyl
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMateo Murphy is a Senior Software Engineer based in Montreal with 17 years of hands-on experience building full-stack web applications, specializing in React.js and Ruby on Rails. He combines long-term freelance practice with senior roles at product companies and startups, most recently joining Proton Radio after serving as CTO at Mentorly. Mateo contributes to core Ruby on Rails tooling—having improved ActiveModel::Serializers for better JSON:API compliance—demonstrating attention to standards and serialization edge cases. He’s led migrations to AWS and automated provisioning, architecting both front-end and back-end systems, and brings a practical maker’s background from running a decades-long freelance practice. Outside engineering he’s an accomplished electronic music producer and DJ, a creative discipline that informs his pragmatic, user-focused approach to product development.
17 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
A.E.C., Computer Programming, A.E.C., Computer Programming at CDI College
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Github Skills (10)
activemodelserializers10
json10
ruby-rails10
rails10
json-api10
serializer10
ruby10
simpleform6
asset-pipeline6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
rails-api/active_model_serializers
Feb 2015 - Mar 2015
ActiveModel::Serializer implementation and Rails hooks
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 5 PRs, 19 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Mateo primarily focused on enhancing the `active_model_serializers` gem, which handles JSON serialization in Rails applications. Their contributions involved refactoring serialization scopes and related logic to improve flexibility and customizability, adding new tests to validate these changes, and ensuring correct behavior with association values. Furthermore, they addressed bugs related to options merging and implemented JSON:API root element handling to align with the specification. The changes indicate a focus on the core functionality of the gem, improving its stability and adherence to standards.
rails-apirailsresource-serializerrubyserializer
mateomurphy/rails_locale_detection
Dec 2011 - Jun 2018
Contributions:108 commits, 1 PR, 17 pushes in 6 years 7 months
ruby-on-railssettinglocalerailsruby
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