Matt Sparkman
Principal Technical Lead at Bullhorn
Missouri, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Sparkman is a Principal Technical Lead with 11 years of hands-on experience building backend systems in Java, Spring, Hibernate and RESTful APIs, currently shaping platform direction at Bullhorn. He brings deep familiarity with relational databases (MSSQL, Oracle), CI tooling (Maven, Git/GitFlow), and Linux-based deployments, and has repeatedly stepped into lead roles to coach teams and drive delivery across agile environments. His career includes full-stack work—from early PHP/MySQL and Angular 2 front-end work to creating extensible email-notification frameworks and automated REST test suites—showing a pragmatic balance of architecture and execution. Based in Missouri with a Computer Science degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia, he’s known for porting projects between languages (Kotlin to Java) and maintaining team morale while shipping high-quality services.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
University of Missouri
Github Skills (4)
ui-components7
java2
hibernate2
postgresql1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
msparkman/LoanStats
Aug 2023 - Aug 2025
A simple angular app to help create amortization schedules for any loan info you provide among other useful info.
Contributions:9 PRs, 5 pushes, 8 branches in 2 years
msparkman/LiteWeight
Apr 2017 - Mar 2021
Simple, lightweight app for storing and viewing workouts using Java, Hibernate, and PostgreSQL
Contributions:5 PRs, 20 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 11 months
hibernatejavapostgresql
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