Matthew Barlocker
Owner at Digital Pigeon
Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Barlocker is a seasoned software engineer and founder with 13 years of experience building and scaling products from zero to millions of users. He has led early engineering teams and architected systems at high-growth companies—designing infrastructure, databases, and APIs to support 10M+ freemium users at Lucid and founding Blue Matador, which he grew to a 20+ person team, raised $3M, and exited in 2021. A pragmatic operator now running Digital Pigeon and previously the first engineering hire at PREFcards™, he excels at solving growth-driven engineering problems and shipping lightweight, notification-first reliability tools. Known for direct honesty and a values-driven approach, he balances entrepreneurial drive with family priorities and a passion for flying, machinery, and board games. An experienced hands-on leader, he combines deep infrastructure instincts with a track record of turning operational pain points into sustainable products.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Brigham Young University
English
Github Skills (46)
lucid9
retina8
playframework8
restful8
counter8
kraken8
scala8
dpi8
java8
image8
reactive8
jvm8
database-access7
nodejs7
high-resolution7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
lucidsoftware/nark
Jul 2013 - Jul 2014
Nark is an alerting and dashboard frontend for graphite.
Contributions:197 commits in 1 year
alertingfrontendgraphitegraphqldashboard
lucidsoftware/cashy-live
Jan 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:1 PR, 21 pushes, 1 comment in 1 month
assetscloudfrontserve
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