Matt Bachmann
Staff Software Engineer at Toast
Medford, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Bachmann is a Staff Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building reliable, cloud-native systems and leading cross-functional teams at companies like Toast, Fitbit, and Lola. He blends hands-on backend development and platform migrations with people-first leadership, having driven Python 3 ports, cloud transitions to GCE, and GDPR and SOX compliance initiatives. An active open-source contributor, he has improved testing infrastructure in the widely used Hypothesis library and enhanced tooling for test coverage in diff_cover, showing a strong commitment to code quality and maintainability. Based in Medford, MA, he excels in collaborative environments where technical depth meets business context, and he often surfaces architectural solutions that reduce long-term operational risk.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Dickinson CollegeMaster of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic InstituteColeytown
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
property-based-testing10
pylint10
pytest10
software-quality10
python10
testing10
documentation9
refactoring8
java6
http6
ubuntu6
git6
delay6
arduino6
github6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
Bachmann1234/diff_cover
Apr 2014 - Jan 2023
Automatically find diff lines that need test coverage.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:52 releases, 46 reviews, 352 commits in 8 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Matt's contributions focused on enhancing code quality and improving the functionality of the diff_cover project. They added support for more advanced pylint features and implemented a fallback mechanism for compatibility with older pylint versions. Furthermore, the user incorporated support for python 3.4 and made changes to ensure proper type handling and code readability, demonstrating a commitment to the project's maintainability and usability.
linestestingneedcoveragetest-coverage
HypothesisWorks/hypothesis
Sep 2015 - May 2016
The property-based testing library for Python
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:10 commits, 6 PRs, 34 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily focused on enhancing the testing infrastructure of the Hypothesis library. They implemented and documented settings profiles, allowing for different configurations based on environments. The user also added a pytest command-line option for loading these profiles and wrote associated tests to confirm the correct functionality. Furthermore, they improved the documentation, particularly regarding settings profiles and stateful testing.
property-based-testingpythonincrementaltestingfuzzing
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