Matt Rice
Staff Software Engineer at Kin Insurance
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolMatt Rice is a Staff Software Engineer in Austin with a decade of hands-on experience building and scaling web applications, currently shaping platform engineering at Kin Insurance. He progressed internally from Senior Software Engineer to Staff, bringing practical leadership to cross-functional teams and architectural decision-making. Previously a Senior Crafter at 8th Light and Lead Developer at Lunar Collective, he has led client-facing projects and mentored engineers while delivering products used by millions. Trained in Ruby on Rails and frontend stacks, he pairs pragmatic full-stack development with a background in teaching and client collaboration. His unconventional path—from a J.D. and legal clerkship to software education and engineering—gives him an uncommon mix of analytical rigor and communication skills. Active on GitHub, he stays engaged with the Austin developer community and continuous learning.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Philosophy at University of HoustonDoctor of Law (J.D.), Law, Doctor of Law (J.D.), Law at The University of Texas at AustinBack-end Engineering, Ruby on Rails, Back-end Engineering, Ruby on Rails at The Iron Yard
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Github Skills (8)
jenkins-api9
jenkins-jobs7
jenkins-cli7
ruby-client6
ruby5
api5
jenkins5
remote-access4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
MattRice12/filecabinet
Aug 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:112 pushes, 10 branches in 7 days
MattRice12/reroot
Aug 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:206 commits, 199 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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