Matt Veitas
Owner at Everbridge
Waltham, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolMatt Veitas is an experienced software engineer and entrepreneur with 15 years building backend systems, DevOps tooling, and cloud-native infrastructure. He combines hands-on engineering roles at companies like HubSpot and Everbridge with founder-level operational experience running a logistics business that streamlines eCommerce fulfillment. A frequent open-source contributor, Matt has improved high-profile projects such as Dropwizard and the Metrics library and contributed linting rules to tflint, showing a focus on observability, configuration, and code quality. He’s comfortable across JVM ecosystems, Ruby tooling, and AWS-hosted architectures, and has led teams to deliver HIPAA-compliant and production-ready APIs. Based in Waltham, MA, he pairs pragmatic engineering with operational savvy—often translating platform improvements into measurable production and business outcomes.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Computer Science, BA, Computer Science at Bucknell UniversityThayer Academy
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Github Skills (31)
unit-testing10
testing10
configuration-management10
rest-services10
terraform10
java10
webservice10
ruby10
dropwizard10
javas10
terraformer10
chef-client10
restful10
automation10
go10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
dropwizard/dropwizard
Mar 2013 - Sep 2017
A damn simple library for building production-ready RESTful web services.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:40 commits, 1 PR, 4 branches in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily contributed to the Dropwizard framework, focusing on enhancing core functionalities and addressing specific issues. Their work included fixing logging path problems and modifying the logging statement for clarity. Furthermore, they implemented a `ConfigurationSourceProvider` interface and replaced deprecated methods, demonstrating a strong understanding of configuration management within the framework. They also added support for validation and integrated metrics annotations for tasks.
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dropwizard/metrics
Mar 2014 - Sep 2017
:chart_with_upwards_trend: Capturing JVM- and application-level metrics. So you know what's going on.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 7 PRs, 5 comments in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily contributed to the codebase by fixing bugs and implementing enhancements related to the metrics library. They added the ability to specify a base name as a filter init-param and also fixed the `scheduledFixedDelay` call in the `InstrumentedScheduledExecutorService`. Furthermore, they introduced style cleanups, including Java 8 lambda expressions and removing unused imports, and added a custom separator for the CSV reporter.
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