Matt Chisholm
Co-founder And Executive Chair at Cantina
Cohasset, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Chisholm is a veteran founder and technology leader with 15+ years building Cantina into a strategy, design, and engineering firm that helps enterprises and startups reshape customer experiences across media, retail, healthcare, finance and real estate. Rooted in an early exposure to architecture and psychology, he blends human-centered design sensibilities with pragmatic technical leadership, believing technology is an expression of human intent. He has deep hands-on back-end experience—contributing bug fixes and enhancements to prominent open-source projects like SQLAlchemy and Flask-related tooling—and has led product and engineering teams from startup CTO to CEO and now Executive Chair. Matt is comfortable translating complex business goals into scalable architectures and has a track record advising major brands (Viacom, Philips, Pearson, UBS) while shepherding countless digital products to market. Less obvious: his practice emphasizes the social dynamics of adoption—team alignment and user motivation—so solutions are as much about people as code.
15 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Newton North HSBS Computer Systems Engineering, BS Computer Systems Engineering at Boston University
Github Skills (28)
api-rest10
cms10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
python10
api-design10
restful-api10
django10
testing10
databases10
html-template10
python-templates10
flask-ask10
code-templates10
apptemplates10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jfinkels/flask-restless
Jan 2013 - Aug 2014
NO LONGER MAINTAINED - A Flask extension for creating simple ReSTful JSON APIs from SQLAlchemy models.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:31 commits, 1 comment in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Matt focused on improving the backend functionality of the `flask-restless` library. They refactored the code to use model class query objects, and implemented a helper function for session queries, enhancing flexibility and maintainability. Furthermore, the user addressed bugs related to creating and deleting objects from relations, ensuring the correct behavior of the API. They also added support for features such as SQL-standard date/datetime functions and association proxies, expanding the library's capabilities.
flaskjson-apirestfulsqlalchemy
zzzeek/sqlalchemy
Jun 2013 - Jul 2014
THIS IS NOT THE OFFICIAL REPO - PLEASE SUBMIT PRs ETC AT: http://github.com/sqlalchemy/sqlalchemy
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Matt primarily contributed to bug fixes and minor feature enhancements within the SQLAlchemy library. They addressed issues related to versioning, specifically correcting how backref relationships and deletions interacted with version history. Additionally, they improved the codebase by fixing resource warnings and updating module loading techniques to align with newer Python versions. Furthermore, the user implemented functionality for MutableDict, including adding support for an `update` method.
sqlalchemy
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