Matt Blackmon
Senior Software Engineer, Mobile at O'Reilly Media
Alabama, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Blackmon is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years of hands-on experience delivering mobile and server-side solutions, currently focusing on iOS and mobile at O'Reilly Media. He excels across the stack—from compiler-level concerns to polished UIs—and emphasizes solving real user problems through measurable improvements. At DealNews he led a legacy-to-MVVM overhaul, raised test coverage, introduced continuous delivery, and drove crash rates below 0.5% while adding personalization and accessibility. His background spans high-performance systems, Java backends, and embedded C/C++ work, giving him a rare fluency in both low-level performance and product-facing design. A practiced organizer and technical reviewer, he’s comfortable leading teams, shaping architecture, and quickly adopting new technologies to fit the solution. Based in Alabama, he combines pragmatic engineering with a track record of turning maintenance-heavy codebases into testable, continuously delivered products.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science and Mathematics (double major), BS, Computer Science and Mathematics (double major) at Vanderbilt University
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Github Skills (34)
github-copilot9
cocoapods9
firebase-database8
authentication8
firebase-storage8
data-persistence8
push-notifications8
firebase-authentication8
objective-c7
firebase7
firebase-messaging7
swiftui7
swift7
coredata6
macos6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mblackmon/swift-snapshot-testing
Jun 2023 - Dec 2024
📸 Delightful Swift snapshot testing.
Contributions:6 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 5 months
oreillymedia/prbuddy
Jan 2025 - May 2025
Contributions:7 releases, 9 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
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