Willow Billock
Grayslake, Illinois, United States
Summary
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SeniorMatt Billock is a Staff Software Engineer with 12 years of experience specializing in Python, Ruby, and JavaScript, currently leading messaging and SMS workflows for Recharge Payments' Shopify integrations. He combines deep serverless and web development expertise with a Master’s in Computer Graphics and Animation, bringing a unique blend of systems thinking and visual computing to product-focused engineering. A frequent conference speaker on serverless technologies, he pairs practical leadership of a pod with hands-on implementation of payment and messaging systems. Based in Lake Villa, Illinois, he prefers fully remote roles and balances his technical life with national performance experience as a brass musician—an indicator of his collaborative stage presence and disciplined practice.
12 years of coding experience
Github Skills (25)
backand10
tracer8
debugging7
serverless6
instrumentation6
salesforce5
lambda5
api5
sinatra5
environment-variables5
aws-lambda5
distributed-tracing5
api-client5
python5
monitoring5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
evilstickman/tessitura
May 2022 - Apr 2026
Contributions:3 reviews, 11 PRs, 85 pushes in 3 years 11 months
wmbillock/family-website
Mar 2020 - May 2026
Code to drive the personal website of the Billock family.
Contributions:8 PRs, 99 pushes, 8 branches in 6 years 2 months
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