Matt Light
Senior Software Engineer at Atticus
Irvine, California, United States
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Top SchoolMatt Light is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of professional experience and a 10+ year track record building full-stack web applications, infrastructure, and developer tooling. Based in Irvine, CA, he has driven engineering and operational improvements at companies from startups he co-founded to enterprise education platforms, often owning features end-to-end from design through deployment and monitoring. He has deep PHP/Postgres experience, has modernized legacy single-tenant systems to multi-tenant architectures, and built job queues, CI/CD pipelines, and Docker/Ansible-based infrastructure. An entrepreneurial tinkerer, he runs Abandoned Pixel Lovers where he produces practical open-source utilities (including a Rollup plugin and developer DNS tooling) and experiments with UI and real-time apps. Known for thoughtful code reviews, mentoring distributed teams, and reducing operational toil, he blends pragmatic engineering with a customer-focused approach to delivering reliable software.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Computer & Information Systems, Computer & Information Systems at Riverside Community CollegeBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of California, Irvine
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Github Skills (72)
python10
automation10
ssh10
ansible10
vagrant10
network-configuration9
go-packages9
virtualization9
wamp9
ruby9
twilio-api9
post9
named-parameters9
php9
sprintf9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
lightster/quick-switcher
Dec 2016 - Aug 2019
🔍 Front-end web component for navigating and searching
Contributions:6 releases, 241 commits, 140 PRs in 2 years 9 months
frontendweb-components
lightster/.ssh
Apr 2015 - Aug 2023
Contributions:8 pushes in 8 years 5 months
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