Summary
Matt 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
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Iowa State University
MS, Computer Graphics and Animation, Developer concentration, MS, Computer Graphics and Animation, Developer concentration at DePaul University