Matt Swanson
Chief Technology Officer at Arrows
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Swanson is a product-focused technology leader and CTO with 11 years of experience building customer-centric SaaS at Arrows and SEP. He favors lightweight processes, clean design, and "boring" maintainable code while driving teams to ship often and build the right products. Hands-on across the stack, he builds with Ruby on Rails, Tailwind, Stimulus, and Hotwire and contributes to core open-source Rails—improving ActionText, ActiveSupport, and mailer previews. Based in Indianapolis, he combines product engineering instincts with operational leadership to align engineering work tightly to revenue and customer success. Collected experience from individual contributor to CTO gives him a practical lens for scaling both teams and codebases. A Purdue-trained computer engineer, he quietly prioritizes developer ergonomics and predictable delivery as competitive advantages.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering at Purdue University
Github Skills (9)
application-framework10
activerecord10
app-framework10
ruby-rails10
web-framework10
rails10
ruby10
testing9
html7
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
rails/rails
Oct 2021 - Dec 2022
Ruby on Rails
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 3 commits, 9 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily contributed to the Rails framework by improving ActionText's plain text output for nested lists, adding a `quarter` method to date/time calculations within ActiveSupport, and modifying mailer preview functionality. They also updated documentation and allowed for customizable missing attachment templates within ActionText. These changes involved modifying core framework files and adding new features.
ruby-on-railsrailsframeworkrubymvc
swanson/lagom
Jan 2015 - Aug 2019
A Jekyll blog theme with just the right amount of style
Contributions:19 PRs, 16 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 7 months
jekyll-blog-themejekyll-blogjekylljekyll-theme
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