Summary
Matt Royer is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years of hands-on experience modernizing and maintaining production systems across Ruby, Python, and JavaScript. He specializes in migrating legacy Rails patterns to modern architectures, designing payment integrations, and building automation that removes repetitive operational work for engineering teams. An early-stage engineer at multiple startups, he’s comfortable owning core product areas from real-time WebSocket features to desktop Electron builds. Matt is an early adopter of AI-augmented engineering—integrating LLMs and GitHub Copilot into migration and test workflows while validating model output to preserve code quality. Based in Lehi, Utah, he combines deep systems experience (from bank ops to SaaS platforms) with a pragmatic focus on measurable developer productivity gains.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer