Summary
Matt Defenthaler is a senior software engineer with 16 years of full-stack experience building web applications using Grails, Django, .NET, AngularJS and jQuery, and has shipped production systems in both enterprise and consulting environments. Based in Silver Spring, MD, he combines backend and frontend expertise with strong Linux chops—having used Ubuntu as his daily driver for nearly seven years—to manage deployments and automation reliably. At Sentinel Solutions he continues to deliver maintainable systems after prior work at Parsons, and his personal projects reflect a hands-on, hardware-friendly mindset: 3D printing, microcontrollers, repurposing consumer devices, and building small Android and Chrome apps. He publishes project logs and source code (http://csmatt.com/notes and https://github.com/csmatt), demonstrating a pragmatic, tinkerer’s approach to solving real-world problems and integrating unconventional hardware into software workflows.
16 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at University of Central Florida