Matthew Dickens
Volunteer Software Engineer at CODE PDX
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolMatthew Dickens is a pragmatic full-stack software engineer and founder based in Portland, Oregon, with 11 years of professional experience and 6+ years focused on building and maintaining production systems. He specializes in TypeScript, Go, and Rust while bringing practical experience with C# and Java, and has consistently delivered cloud-native backends, developer tooling, and CI/CD improvements for companies like Nordic Semiconductor and DAT Solutions. At Nordic he cut AWS costs and streamlined developer workflows by building internal tooling, custom scheduling platforms, and enhancing pipelines with GitHub Actions and CDK/Terraform. As owner of Byte Bard Studios he combines hands-on engineering with an entrepreneurial mindset, and earlier work ranges from ISS financial applications to university portals—showing a knack for translating domain needs into reliable, test-driven software. Colleagues would note his focus on developer experience and automation: he repeatedly reduces manual overhead so teams can move faster.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at University of Houston
English
Stackoverflow
41reputation
4kreached
4answers
2questions
Github Skills (90)
javascript10
shortcuts10
css10
keyboard-shortcuts9
linux9
material-design9
api-documentation9
script9
rust8
magento8
python8
windows8
state-management8
php8
ecommerce8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Toltar/nvim-config
Jan 2024 - Oct 2025
My personal nvim config.
Contributions:2 PRs, 85 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
nvimluaneovimvim
Toltar/downloads-organizer
Oct 2015 - Dec 2022
Ever get tired of you downloads folder getting messy? Well a simple script can do the trick. This will organize your folders by file-type.
Contributions:1 review, 21 commits, 3 PRs in 7 years 2 months
scriptpythondownloaderosxrust
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