Matt Coffin
Staff Software Engineer, Data Architect
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolMatt Coffin is a Staff Software Engineer and Data Architect with 12 years building scalable data systems, embedded firmware, and cloud infrastructure from startups to enterprise teams. Currently based in Denver, he blends deep database and distributed-systems expertise with practical full‑stack experience across mobile, image processing, and build systems, having moved from senior engineering roles at RE/MAX into platform architecture. An active FOSS contributor and hobbyist embedded developer, he adapted the Zinc Rust bare‑metal stack for multiple MCUs—modernizing its build system and ISR support—demonstrating low‑level hardware fluency alongside high‑level data design. Competitive skydiving informs his risk-calibrated, focused approach to problem solving, and he’s known for picking up new languages to unlock fresh system design perspectives.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Air Academy High SchoolUniversity of California, San Diego
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
arm10
embedded10
bare-metal10
rust10
architectures10
sys10
architecture10
stm9
microcontroller9
iot8
iot-devkit8
build-automation7
mesos6
apache-zookeeper6
mesosphere6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
hackndev/zinc
May 2015 - Dec 2016
The bare metal stack for rust
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:47 commits, 28 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily focused on adapting the Zinc bare metal stack for Rust to various embedded systems. Contributions include converting the build system to cargo, and ensuring compatibility with nightly builds, which suggests an effort to keep the project up-to-date with the Rust ecosystem. Furthermore, the user worked on platform-specific configurations, particularly for LPC17xx, STM32, and K20 microcontrollers, and introduced features related to the embedded nature of the project, like ISRs. The code changes reveal a deep understanding of hardware interfacing and low-level system programming.
bare-metalrust
mcoffin/zinc
May 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:11 commits, 14 PRs, 159 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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