Matt Mcmahand
Staff Software Engineer at Matt McMahand
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolMatt Mcmahand is a Staff Software Engineer with 17 years of experience building and leading delivery of scalable web applications, currently based in Charlotte, NC. He combines deep Rails expertise with cloud and DevOps practice—migrating infrastructure from Heroku to GCP, authoring Terraform-driven deployments, and operating microservices in Python/TypeScript stacks. As a technical lead at Nomad Health he helped scale the org from ~10 to 100+ engineers while mentoring mid- and junior engineers and driving integrations across monoliths and microservices. A longtime Rails consultant and proactive open-source contributor, he’s improved CI, test suites, and cross-version compatibility for popular Ruby plugins. Outside work he balances hands-on coding with time outdoors, reflecting a pragmatic, steady approach to engineering and team leadership.
17 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Irvine
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Github Skills (15)
ruby10
rspec10
ruby-rails10
rails10
cicd10
testing10
logger9
impressions9
logging9
imp9
rack8
hiera6
vagrant6
puppet6
debian6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
charlotte-ruby/impressionist
Jul 2020 - Dec 2022
Rails Plugin that tracks impressions and page views
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer/Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer/Test Automation EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 14 commits, 19 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Matt focused on improving the test suite and resolving build failures within the Rails application. They refactored test directories, created a dummy application for testing, and fixed issues related to CI builds. The user updated gems, addressed deprecation warnings, and replaced Minitest with RSpec to ensure consistency. Additionally, the user modified session handling for compatibility with multiple Rack/Rails versions.
railshotel-bookingmlsrubyplugin
charlotte-ruby/image_scraper
Jan 2013 - Dec 2022
simple utility that pulls image URLs from a web page
Contributions:1 release, 3 reviews, 64 commits in 10 years 1 month
urlsscrapescraperopen-graphweb-page
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