Matt Haggard
Working Man at One Part Rain
Flowery Branch, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Haggard is a pragmatic software engineer with 16 years of experience blending backend systems work, security-focused development, and hands-on QA. He’s contributed to notable open-source projects including the Nim compiler (enhancing GC behavior and tooling) and has full-stack experience shipping Electron auto-update flows and robust Twisted-based services. Matt’s background spans penetration testing and software engineering roles where he applied Python, TypeScript, Node, Docker and PostgreSQL to harden and maintain production systems. Based in Flowery Branch, GA, he’s known for “thoroughly fixing things that are broken” and a habit of working for companies with blue logos—an amusing indicator of his consistent fit with disciplined, mission-driven teams.
16 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Electrical Engineering at Brigham Young University
English, Spanish, French, Bantu, ndebele, north, Italian
Github Skills (32)
asynchronous10
unit-testing10
nim-lang10
javascript10
continuous-integration10
python10
electron10
python-asyncio10
async10
testing10
test-framework10
cli-framework10
compiler-compiler10
twisted10
klee10
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
iffy/electron-updater-example
Feb 2017 - Oct 2021
A complete example showing how to use `electron-updater`
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:21 releases, 58 commits, 16 PRs in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Matt focused on enhancing the functionality of the electron-updater-example project. Their contributions primarily involved incorporating features related to auto-updates, including logging, and improving the build and publish processes. They made changes to `main.js`, `version.html`, and `publish.sh` to include logging, handle update events, and configure build commands.
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nim-lang/Nim
Jan 2019 - Nov 2022
Nim is a statically typed compiled systems programming language. It combines successful concepts from mature languages like Python, Ada and Modula. Its design focuses on efficiency, expressiveness, and elegance (in that order of priority).
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 8 commits, 12 PRs in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily contributed to the Nim compiler's garbage collection (GC) and related system functionalities. They focused on increasing the verbosity of GC logging for debugging and analysis, along with modifications to GC behavior. Additionally, the user added non-interactive installer flags and made changes to date parsing/formatting within the `times` module, and fixed issues related to file I/O. These changes improve the compiler's maintainability and provide more control for users.
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