Matthew Boston
Software Engineer at Block
Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolMatthew Boston is a seasoned software engineer with over 15 years building and leading platform, release, and resilience engineering initiatives for high-scale SaaS and developer tools. He’s driven major efficiency wins—cutting infrastructure costs by up to 70%, improving API performance by 80%+, and accelerating CI/CD for millions of builds—while architecting monorepo-aware deployment systems and event-driven platforms. Comfortable across Ruby, TypeScript, Java, and Clojure, he blends hands‑on coding with technical leadership to raise observability and developer velocity at companies like Shopify, Procore, and CircleCI. He’s equally practiced at pragmatic cost and security optimizations as he is at developer ergonomics, having introduced ADR/RFC processes and “testing in production” strategies. Based in Colorado, he focuses on delivering durable, measurable outcomes that balance reliability, cost, and speed, and often prefers small, elegant solutions over unnecessary complexity.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science & Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science & Engineering at The Ohio State University
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Github Skills (200)
c3p010
vim10
ring10
spice10
babashka10
api-blueprint10
nodenv10
zsh10
activemodel10
php10
python10
kitematic10
bash10
ruby10
segment10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
bostonaholic/nodenv.plugin.zsh
Jul 2019 - Mar 2024
A Zsh plugin to auto-load nodenv
Contributions:12 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 8 months
zsh-pluginnodenvzsh
testdouble/baizen
Jan 2014 - May 2016
BAI file format parser
Contributions:1 release, 96 commits, 8 pushes in 2 years 4 months
file-formatformat-parserparser
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