Matt Culpepper
Staff Software Engineer at Wrapbook
Mississippi, United States
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Top SchoolMatt Culpepper is a Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of hands-on experience building and scaling Ruby-based web backends, currently leading platform work at Wrapbook. He combines deep performance and reliability expertise—having driven order-of-magnitude throughput improvements, eliminated deadlocks, and redesigned deployment/review workflows—with day-to-day craftsmanship as a prolific code reviewer and mentor. Matt has led teams, owned architecture as a former CTO, and shipped cross-cutting infrastructure like Kubernetes-ready gems, Terraform automation, and a Heroku review-app replacement. He also invents in his spare time—launching several side projects including a novel cryptocurrency mining pool in 2014—and contributes to open source. Based in rural Mississippi, he brings pragmatic engineering judgment, an operational mindset, and a knack for turning slow legacy paths into millisecond-fast services.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Mississippi State University
English
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Github Skills (200)
transaction10
mvc10
ruby10
linter10
activerecord10
pty10
ruby-on-rails10
mining10
secp256k110
html10
analyzer10
rails10
ide10
terminal-emulator10
pool10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
mculp/ms-covid-tracker
Jun 2020 - Aug 2020
County-level historical COVID tracking for the state of Mississippi, built with Hanami
Contributions:68 commits, 55 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
mississippicovid-trackingrubytrackinghistorical
mculp/chunkypools.com
Feb 2014 - Jun 2020
Contributions:285 commits, 5 pushes in 6 years 5 months
instancesruby-on-railsrailsmposruby
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