Matt Quinn
Senior Software Engineer at Sentry (sentry.io)
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Quinn is a senior software engineer with 13 years of experience building SaaS web applications, RESTful APIs, and developer tools, currently driving reliability and feature delivery at Sentry. He has a strong track record as a technical lead and principal engineer—rescuing underused features, architecting multi-fold performance improvements, and shipping complex integrations such as a Discourse-based community platform. Comfortable across Ruby, Go, and JavaScript, he pairs hands-on coding with cross-team architecture, hiring and mentoring, and product-oriented problem solving. His early work spans mobile native apps, AWS infrastructure, and embedded database testing contributions to projects like Couchbase Lite Android, reflecting a practical focus on stability as well as speed. Based in Toronto and trained in computational mathematics at the University of Waterloo, Matt excels at making pragmatic tradeoffs to deliver useful, reliable software under real-world constraints.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Computational Mathematics, Computational Mathematics at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (8)
javas10
junit10
android10
java10
couchbase-lite10
test-automation10
testing10
nosql8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
couchbase/couchbase-lite-android
Sep 2013 - Jun 2014
Lightweight, embedded, syncable NoSQL database engine for Android.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:14 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily contributed to the testing of the Couchbase Lite Android library. Their work involved writing new tests, including those focused on database change listeners, conflict replication, and document property immutability. They also addressed bugs and improved existing tests, ensuring the library's reliability and functionality through rigorous testing.
androidnosql-database
mjq/opentelemetry-go
Apr 2025 - Jun 2025
OpenTelemetry Go API and SDK
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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