Matthew Fitzsimmons
Staff Engineer at Famly
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Fitzsimmons is a Staff Engineer based in Copenhagen with a decade of full-stack experience spanning cloud infrastructure, back-end systems, and front-end development. He has led teams and shipping efforts at scale—introducing a Haskell-based stack and Nix-powered build pipelines to harden insurance infrastructure and driving stability and scalability for production car insurance products. Comfortable across Python, Scala, TypeScript, Kubernetes and functional toolchains, he favors static typing and functional programming to produce reliable, well-architected systems. A pragmatic Linux aficionado who cut his teeth on infrastructure and SRE work, he blends hands-on implementation with high-level architecture and cross-team leadership.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BA (Honors) (Distinction) Linguistics - Specialization in Language and Society, BA (Honors) (Distinction) Linguistics - Specialization in Language and Society at University of Victoria
English, Japanese, Icelandic, Danish
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Github Skills (14)
linux10
nix10
nixos9
nixpkgs9
infrastructure8
haskell8
emacs5
shell4
vim3
zsh3
ghc2
github1
continuous-testing1
post1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ftzm/TaskLand
Nov 2015 - Aug 2019
Contributions:65 commits, 54 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 10 months
ftzm/dots
Jun 2018 - Nov 2022
Linux dotfiles
Contributions:195 commits, 8 PRs, 240 pushes in 4 years 6 months
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