Matt Walters
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Walters is a founder and engineering leader with 11 years of experience building and scaling high-throughput, distributed software systems from pre-seed startups to global products. He led engineering at Tesla Energy managing mission-critical web applications handling billions of telemetry points and multimillion-device fleets, and previously architected low-latency trading and IoT platforms that routed tens of billions in orders and enabled near-real-time electricity settlements. A pragmatic polyglot, he chooses and builds open-source tools when needed (notably contributing to meta repo tooling) and makes complex systems simple for teams to ship faster. Based in Austin, he combines hands-on backend and DevOps expertise with people leadership—helping organizations break monoliths into resilient microservices, and accelerating knowledge workflows through his current GitKB project.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Texas Christian University
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
git10
javascript10
meta10
jes10
jestjs10
jtest10
nodejs10
npm9
cicd8
utility7
dependency-injection6
oauth6
heroku6
design-patterns6
passportjs6
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
mateodelnorte/meta
Dec 2016 - Apr 2020
tool for turning many repos into a meta repo. why choose many repos or a monolithic repo, when you can have both with a meta repo?
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:36 commits, 65 PRs, 147 pushes in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of the `meta` repository tool. Their work involved modifying the core logic for plugin discovery and management, including changes to the `findPlugins.js` file. They also addressed issues related to environment variables and npm package management. Additionally, the user standardized the project's testing structure, set up linting, and implemented commit message linting.
productivitymetameta-repoturningrepository-utilities
mateodelnorte/amqp-match
Feb 2017 - Dec 2018
transforms amqp routing keys to regular expressions for more convenient runtime matching
Contributions:1 review, 2 commits, 3 PRs in 1 year 10 months
regular-expressionsmatchingruntimekeysregular
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