Matthew Bender
Staff Software Engineer at CirrusMD Inc.
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolMatthew Bender is a staff software engineer with 13 years of experience building high-performance, reliable backend systems from startups to scale-ups. Based in Denver, he’s a polyglot engineer who has led API and microservice architectures—authoring Go gRPC services, Ruby on Rails transactional APIs, and event-driven systems backed by Kafka and Firebase. He’s repeatedly served as the sole backend expert on cross-functional teams, driving everything from Protobuf contract design to deployment and monitoring of 20+ microservices. Matthew’s hands-on focus on background processing and operational reliability (evident in his Sidekiq work on the coderwall legacy project) complements his track record of cutting CI/CD times and extracting scalable services. Pragmatic and product-minded, he balances technical leadership with shipping maintainable, well-tested systems that unlock customer value.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at University of Colorado at BoulderComputer Science, Computer Science at Fachhochschule Regensburg
English, German, Italian
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Github Skills (4)
background-processing10
sidekiq10
ruby10
activerecord9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
coderwall/coderwall-legacy
Nov 2014 - Jan 2015
Professional network for software engineers
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 5 PRs, 4 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily focused on organizing Sidekiq jobs by assigning them to specific queue names. They modified various job files, including those for data cleanup, user operations, and network updates. These changes indicate a focus on improving background processing and task management within the application, ensuring efficient execution of asynchronous tasks.
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codebender/slack-emojis
Jun 2015 - Aug 2020
Custom Slack Emojis
Contributions:94 commits, 77 PRs, 42 pushes in 5 years 2 months
slackemojiemojis
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