Matt Cruz
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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SeniorMateus Cruz is a senior software developer with 11 years of engineering experience and a strong track record building scalable Ruby on Rails systems and modern front-ends with Vue/React. Currently at Nasdaq, he drives architecture, performance and tooling for trading platforms—rewriting background job systems and authoring a gem for SQL-level primary/replica connection switching to unblock high-frequency traffic. He has led tech teams and mentoring initiatives across startups and enterprises, introduced SOLID/DRY and test-oriented culture to improve delivery, and designed cloud architectures on AWS/GCP/Azure. Comfortable spanning backend, frontend and infra, Mateus combines pragmatic engineering with a penchant for performance optimization and knowledge transfer. An international background including study at University of Toronto and experience across diverse stacks gives him a practical, systems-minded approach to complex product challenges.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (56)
delayed-job10
parser10
mvc10
rails10
ruby10
html10
activerecord10
uploader9
instagram9
modular9
plugin9
markdown9
scaffold9
vue-i18n9
proxy9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mateuscruz/dns_api
Nov 2018 - Jul 2026
A simple API for storing DNSs and their hostnames.
Contributions:75 reviews, 49 PRs, 104 pushes in 7 years 8 months
apidnsstoringsimple-apihostnames
mateuscruz/tweetstormgenerator
Mar 2021 - Aug 2025
Contributions:2 reviews, 3 PRs, 14 pushes in 4 years 5 months
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