Matt Lightner
Founder And CTO at Red Radiant Inc.
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Lightner is a founder and CTO with 17 years of experience building web infrastructure and products from the Bay Area. He founded and leads Red Radiant after a long tenure as CEO and later Chairman at Site5 Internet Solutions, blending executive leadership with hands-on engineering. Technically fluent in Ruby on Rails, Perl, PHP, MySQL and front-end technologies, he focuses on delivering scalable, pragmatic stacks that power hosting and web platforms. Based in San Jose, he brings a finance background from Santa Clara University to product and business decisions, helping prioritize ROI alongside technical tradeoffs. Known for shipping reliable systems rather than chasing trends, he pairs deep legacy-language expertise with modern web patterns. His career reflects a builder-founder mindset: creating durable infrastructure and companies that support other developers and entrepreneurs.
17 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Commerce, Finance, Bachelor of Science in Commerce, Finance at Santa Clara University
Github Skills (23)
sinatra6
padrino6
waf6
ruby-on-rails5
campfire5
whois5
api5
ruby5
facebook5
domain-name5
tinder5
rails4
graph4
full-stack4
act4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
mlightner/universal_ruby_whois
Oct 2008 - Dec 2011
Contributions:32 commits in 3 years 2 months
actdomain-nameextensionsdomainwhois
mlightner/rails_starter_app
Jan 2009 - Jan 2009
Contributions:9 commits in 1 day
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