Matt Novenstern
Staff Software Engineer at Codecademy
City of Beacon, New York, United States
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Top SchoolMatt Novenstern is a Staff Software Engineer with 17 years of experience who currently drives platform and architecture work at Codecademy, including leading a migration from Apollo's Node GraphQL gateway to a Rust implementation and building Rust plugins to mitigate DoS-style attacks. He has a strong full-stack background across Python, Ruby, React, and Go, and has repeatedly translated product needs into secure, scalable systems—most notably helping grow Codecademy for Business from launch to $1M in revenue and retrofitting enterprise access controls into a CMS. An organizer and technical mentor, he helps coordinate senior engineers to set org-wide engineering goals and is actively planning more sophisticated authorization frameworks to support consumer and business products. His early career blends scientific research and hardware work with software craftsmanship, reflecting a pragmatic, data-driven approach to problem solving. Based in Beacon, New York, Matt pairs deep technical ownership with an uncommon fluency in both low-level systems (Rust) and product-facing integrations, and he keeps a curious, cross-disciplinary streak visible in side projects involving Common Lisp and Elm.
17 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Horace Greeley High SchoolBA, Physics, Honors in Physics, BA, Physics, Honors in Physics at Colgate UniversityApp Development, App Development at App Academy
German, English, Esperanto
Github Skills (142)
sylvester10
lisp-interpreter10
common-lisp10
gnome10
quicklisp10
gnome-shell10
lisp10
rdf9
emacs9
pandora9
internet-radio9
relay9
pcie9
ide9
schema-org9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
fisxoj/cl-gi
Feb 2012 - Jan 2013
Contributions:34 commits in 10 months
fisxoj/serverless-lisp
Aug 2020 - Mar 2025
A serverless framework plugin for building common lisp lambdas
Contributions:6 PRs, 4 pushes, 7 branches in 4 years 7 months
serverlessaws-lambdaplugin-frameworklambdaslisp
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