Matt Pruitt
Head Of Product at Big Refactor
Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand
Summary
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SeniorMatt Pruitt is a seasoned engineering leader and Head of Product based in Bangkok with 18 years of experience building and shipping backend systems, primarily in Elixir and Ruby. He combines hands-on engineering—still contributing code as an Elixir consultant—with product and technical direction across multiple event-tech products at Happily. His background includes driving high-impact services such as an abandoned cart system that added $750k in GMV at Peek and internal IAM and ordering services at Weedmaps. A pragmatic full-stack developer, he has contributed to open-source projects like OpenFarm where he improved guide management, compatibility scoring, and search sorting. Comfortable hiring, setting roadmaps, and staying close to customers, he blends product strategy with deep backend expertise. He also has a long history of building tooling and integrations that solve hard operational problems behind the scenes.
18 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (13)
rails10
backend10
front-end-development10
back-end-development10
ruby-on-rails10
database9
rspec9
databases9
api8
apidoc8
open-source7
agriculture6
garden6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
openfarmcc/OpenFarm
Feb 2015 - Mar 2015
A free and open database for farming and gardening knowledge. You can grow anything!
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 3 PRs, 5 comments in 18 days
Contributions summary:Matt implemented and refined guide management features within the application, including the ability to delete guides, fix compatibility score calculations, and sort guides by compatibility in search results. They modified both backend code, focusing on mutations and database interactions, and frontend components within the application's view layer, using frameworks like Rails and Ruby on Rails to create and handle the guide content. These changes included creating new routes, controller actions, and front-end elements, as well as refactoring models and serializers.
gardeningknowledgerailsplantsdatabase
guitsaru/website
Sep 2020 - Jun 2023
My website
Contributions:6 PRs, 42 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 9 months
react
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