Matt Tucker
Director Of Software Engineering at Ookla
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Tucker is a seasoned software engineering leader with 12+ years of experience and a long tenure at Ookla where he progressed from Senior Engineer to Director of Software Engineering. He combines hands-on full-stack and backend expertise—especially Java, Spring, messaging systems, and distributed architectures—with a passion for improving team productivity through tooling, CI, and developer-focused libraries. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he enjoys learning new languages and frameworks and applying them judiciously to real problems. Outside of work he channels curiosity into hands-on projects (home automation, carpentry) and volunteer work in animal behavior, reflecting a practical, systems-thinking approach. Based in Seattle, he excels at turning complex requirements into maintainable systems while enabling teams to ship better software faster.
12 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Saratoga High School
Github Skills (120)
hexo10
javascript10
harmony10
json10
database-access10
typescript10
nodejs10
xml10
logging10
redis-client9
sql9
internet9
http-client9
networking9
poco9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
teamookla/poco
Feb 2016 - Feb 2024
POCO C++ Libraries - Cross-platform C++ libraries with a network/internet focus.
Contributions:3 reviews, 17 PRs, 147 pushes in 8 years 1 month
cppcmakewindowspocolinux
tuck182/harmony-java-client
Aug 2014 - Apr 2018
Java client for communicating with a Harmony Hub
Contributions:40 commits, 12 PRs, 11 pushes in 3 years 8 months
harmony-hubjavaharmonyjava-client
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