Matt Wilson
Principal Software Engineer Partnerships at Alkami Technology
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolMatt Wilson is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience designing enterprise applications, pipeline automation, and integrations for companies like Alkami, MANTL, Shutterstock, and Warby Parker. He brings an uncommon blend of visual effects training and software architecture expertise, pairing optimization and aesthetics to craft scalable, maintainable systems across languages and stacks. Skilled in devops, encryption, databases, and object-oriented design, he focuses on integration-heavy platforms and operational automation that drive commerce and partner ecosystems. An active open-source contributor, he has improved dependency automation in Renovate and added TypeScript definitions and performance fixes to prominent Node.js projects like nock and DefinitelyTyped. Based in Denver, he combines hands-on engineering leadership with a forensic, security-minded approach born from previous roles in data recovery and technical direction.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Fine Arts Visual Effects, Bachelors of Fine Arts Visual Effects at Savannah College of Art and Design
php, python, c++, javascript, ruby, java, actionscript, bash, renderman, hscript, go
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (30)
dependency-management10
javascript10
package-management10
definitelytyped10
testing10
http10
typescript10
type-definition10
typescript-types10
nodejs10
typescripts10
jes9
apidoc9
jtest9
php9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
nock/nock
May 2019 - Jun 2022
HTTP server mocking and expectations library for Node.js
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:28 reviews, 203 commits, 274 PRs in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Matt's primary focus was adding TypeScript definitions for the project, significantly enhancing the type safety and maintainability of the codebase. They also refactored code to improve performance and readability and implemented features related to request header handling. Further work included addressing a bug related to handling content-type request headers when arrays are used and ensuring the correct behavior with `http.request` signatures and agent timeouts.
mock-servernocknode-jstestingjavascript
DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
Nov 2017 - Nov 2021
The repository for high quality TypeScript type definitions.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 reviews, 41 commits, 32 PRs in 4 years
Contributions summary:Matt primarily contributes to the development of TypeScript type definitions for various JavaScript libraries, including Knex, Luxon, and Opossum, within the DefinitelyTyped repository. Their work focuses on updating interfaces, adding new functionalities, and fixing lint issues to ensure type safety and accuracy. They also added tests to validate the correctness of these definitions. The user demonstrates a strong understanding of TypeScript and the underlying JavaScript libraries for which they are providing type definitions.
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