Matt Olson
Senior Software Developer at Mercury
Port Moody, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Olson is a Senior Software Developer with 11+ years of experience building resilient, high-performance backend services and coaching teams to run them 24/7. A former academic turned pragmatic generalist, he blends typed functional programming (notably Haskell and F#) with reliability engineering, observability, and high-throughput data tooling. At Mercury he architects anti-fraud and sanctions tooling, mentors new-to-Haskell engineers, and drives platform stability with Honeycomb-backed observability and Postgres-backed systems. He has led reliability and release practices at PayByPhone, scaling teams and on-call culture while keeping downtime intolerable. Comfortable both shipping code and advising managers, he pairs mathematical rigor with a hands-on, no-nonsense approach to running production services.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computing Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computing Science at University of AlbertaPhD, Computing Science, PhD, Computing Science at Simon Fraser University
English, French
Stackoverflow
409reputation
10kreached
14answers
5questions
Github Skills (26)
suave9
whiteboard8
airtable8
async7
webserver7
declaration6
pointer6
strict6
http-server6
template-engine6
dotnet6
middleware6
http-handler6
javascript6
composition6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
MattJOlson/Demands
Apr 2016 - May 2022
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 2 months
MattJOlson/DevProjects
May 2015 - Aug 2016
Contributions:98 commits, 84 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 4 months
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