Matt Farmer
Principal Site Reliability Engineer at Censys
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Farmer is a Principal Site Reliability Engineer with 14 years of experience building high-performance backend systems, infrastructure, and data platforms across startups, consultancies, and larger companies. He combines hands-on JVM and Scala expertise—demonstrated by contributions to projects like the Lift Framework and the popular hub4j GitHub API client—with a knack for owning technical roadmaps and migrating services to Kubernetes at scale. At companies like Mailchimp, Greenlight, and Domino he led platform migrations, designed data application platforms, and created developer productivity tooling that shipped multiple production services. He mentors engineers, coordinates cross-functional roadmaps, and has repeatedly translated operational needs into durable architecture and automation. Based in Atlanta, he also runs a consulting practice and brings an unusual mix of deep backend engineering, SRE discipline, and client-facing communication—plus the occasional mention that he’s a “chaser of tiny humans,” hinting at a life beyond keyboards.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
University of Georgia
Stackoverflow
709reputation
30kreached
17answers
2questions
Github Skills (27)
api-rest10
client-library10
apidoc10
api-design10
restful-api10
java10
scala10
lift10
javas10
api10
github-api10
rest-api10
testing9
unit-testing9
json9
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
lift/framework
Jan 2013 - Oct 2021
Lift Framework
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:20 releases, 18 reviews, 543 commits in 8 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily contributed to the Lift Framework's core and web-based components. Their work included de-duplicating code related to base64 encoding, refactoring and improving readability in existing code, and implementing new features related to HTML form handling and JSON serialization. The user demonstrated proficiency in Scala and the framework's internal APIs by implementing enhancements across several core classes such as SHtml.
frameworkscalaliftjavareal-time
hub4j/github-api
Nov 2013 - Nov 2019
Java API for GitHub
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & API Developer
Back-end Developer & API DeveloperContributions:23 commits, 1 PR, 7 comments in 6 years
Contributions summary:Matt primarily focused on enhancing the GitHub API Java client library by implementing new features and improving existing functionality. Their contributions included adding the ability to retrieve content SHA, update and delete content, create content, and retrieve content from a particular ref. They also introduced support for specifying branch names during content updates. Furthermore, they added a CRUD integration test and ref update/delete support for GitHub references.
apigithub-api-v3client-libraryjava-apijava
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