Matthew Blasius
Software Architect at Expel
Grand Prairie, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Blasius is a software architect with 12 years of experience building backend-first web platforms, currently shaping architecture and delivery at Expel after progressing through senior and principal engineering roles there. He specializes in Node.js, JavaScript, PostgreSQL, Kafka, gRPC/Protobuf and robust API design patterns like JSON-Schema and jsonapi, pairing modern messaging with pragmatic data models. His career spans security-focused companies (FireEye/Mandiant, Symantec) and government-facing projects, giving him a strong background in reliable, auditable systems for high-stakes environments. Comfortable across Linux and OSX toolchains, Matthew blends hands-on implementation (Express, Bash, Git) with architectural leadership, mentoring teams to ship scalable services. Colleagues rely on him for marrying legacy interoperability with current event-driven and protobuf-based integrations—a practical bridge between operations and clean API design.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Applied Science, Software Engineering, Associate of Applied Science, Software Engineering at Texas State Technical College
Github Skills (72)
postgresql10
jsonb10
databases10
db210
javascript10
sql10
d110
database10
json10
sqlite10
cockroachdb10
mysql10
mariadb10
typescript10
sql-server10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
slickmb/jsonapi-server-public
Apr 2017 - Mar 2018
A config driven NodeJS framework implementing json:api and GraphQL
Contributions:58 pushes, 31 branches in 11 months
apinodejs-frameworkconfig-drivennodejsconfig
slickmb/sequelize
Aug 2017 - Dec 2024
An easy-to-use multi SQL dialect ORM for Node.js
Contributions:29 pushes, 5 branches in 7 years 5 months
dialectmysqlmulti-usenode-jssql
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