Matt Mcdonald
Chief Technology Officer at Madison AI LLC
France
Summary
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SeniorMatt Mcdonald is a seasoned CTO and full-stack engineer with over a decade of experience building scalable web and AI-powered products. As co-founder and CTO of Madison he architected and implemented core platform features, led scalable deployments, and integrated LLMs like OpenAI into production marketing tools. His stack spans Laravel, React/React Native, OpenAI and AWS, and he’s also contributed to the popular Laravel framework—improving backend request handling, DB interactions and notification tooling. Previously he led development at Miappi and re-engineered products to expand market reach, demonstrating a consistent focus on user experience and pragmatic system architecture. Based in France, he blends hands-on engineering with strategic product leadership to turn complex integrations into reliable, user-focused solutions.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
English, French
Github Skills (13)
databases10
php10
laravel10
laravel-mix10
database10
api-design9
cli9
command-line9
command-line-interface9
notification8
web-framework8
app-framework8
application-framework8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
laravel/framework
Mar 2015 - Mar 2020
The Laravel Framework.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 7 commits, 16 PRs in 5 years
Contributions summary:Matt contributed to the Laravel framework by implementing and modifying backend functionalities. Their work included improving request handling, database interactions, and notification features. They added a command to create a notifications table and modified the mail transport. They also fixed a typo in the docblock and exposed a method.
laravel-frameworklaravelphpframework
mattiverse/Laravel-Userstamps
Mar 2016 - Sep 2020
Laravel Userstamps provides an Eloquent trait which automatically maintains `created_by` and `updated_by` columns on your model, populated by the currently authenticated user in your application.
Contributions:30 releases, 2 reviews, 59 commits in 4 years 6 months
traitphpauthenticatedupdatedcolumns
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