Matt Gauger
Lead Member Of Technical Staff at Heroku
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
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Top SchoolMatt Gauger is a seasoned software engineering leader with 16 years building and operating large-scale distributed systems, currently serving as Lead Member of Technical Staff at Heroku after a Staff Engineer role at GitHub. He combines hands-on backend development—evidenced by meaningful contributions to high-profile projects like the Heroku CLI and community repos such as exercism/clojure—with a track record of driving technical excellence and cross-functional delivery. Based in Milwaukee, he focuses on resilient, decentralized infrastructure and pragmatic refactors that improve code readability, async behavior, and test coverage. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex operational needs into reliable tooling and workflows, and his open-source work reflects a thoughtful interest in hyper-local, inclusive infrastructure and long-term maintainability.
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Milwaukee Area Technical CollegeUniversity of Wisconsin-Parkside
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Github Skills (25)
asynchronous10
javascript10
clojure-cli10
async10
command-line-interface10
refactor10
clojure10
heroku-cli10
manage10
command-line10
management10
heroku10
gatsbyjs10
namespaces10
refactoring10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
heroku/cli
Sep 2015 - Feb 2017
Heroku CLI
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 9 commits, 7 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Matt contributed to the Heroku CLI by implementing features related to add-on provisioning, including showing provisioning states in addons commands and adding a `--wait` option to `addons:create`. They refactored command logic, added test coverage, and refactored code to support asynchronous provisioning. The user's changes touched upon the `addons/info.js`, `addons/create.js` and `addons/wait.js` and other core command files.
heroku-cliherokuheroku-cli-plugin
exercism/clojure
Oct 2014 - Oct 2014
Exercism exercises in Clojure.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 8 days
Contributions summary:Matt primarily focused on code cleanup and refactoring within the Clojure exercism repository. Their work included whitespace adjustments, namespace organization, and ensuring examples matched the specified namespaces. They also addressed code formatting by reindenting namespace macros and refactoring of example files. These contributions improved code readability, consistency, and adherence to established coding standards within the project.
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