Summary
Matt 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