Matt C
Software Engineer at Center for Open Science
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolMatt C is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building secure, scalable web applications for civic and scientific use, currently at the Center for Open Science in Charlottesville. He focuses on backend development in Python and Java, operating across Elasticsearch, Postgres, and MongoDB to power a cloud platform used by over 500k researchers. His work spans systems engineering, CI/CD, and security compliance—he implemented and manages his organization’s SOC2 program. Previously he consulted on search and large-scale federal systems, tuning relevancy and migrating legacy services to open-source stacks. An active contributor to the OSF.io open-science project, he’s known for practical back-end improvements like serialization fixes, spam filtering and Celery integration that keep core functionality reliable. With a liberal-arts BA and computer-science coursework, he blends clear communication and requirements work with hands-on engineering.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), English, Education, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), English, Education at Roanoke CollegeCommunity Scholar, Comp Sci Coursework, Community Scholar, Comp Sci Coursework at University of Virginia
Github Skills (8)
python10
django10
testing10
api-design9
django-rest-framework9
django-rest9
celery8
postgresql7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
CenterForOpenScience/osf.io
Jul 2016 - Apr 2021
Facilitating Open Science
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 10 PRs, 7 pushes in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Matt's contributions focused on back-end improvements and bug fixes within the OSF.io Django application. The commits included merging hotfix branches and addressing issues related to node links and spam filtering. The code changes also involved modifications to serialization logic, enabling Celery worker queues, and updating tests to reflect these changes. Their work demonstrates a focus on maintaining and improving core application functionality.
pythonsciencedjango-rest-frameworkdjangojavascript
mattclark/osf.io
Sep 2015 - Aug 2024
Facilitating Open Science
Contributions:2 PRs, 51 pushes, 12 branches in 9 years 1 month
pythonscienceopen-science
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