Summary
Matthew Gallant is a backend software engineer with 8 years of experience, currently building payments and billing systems at Coinbase after a formative run leading billing, payments, fraud, and microservice work at Shippo. He specializes in Python and Go, cloud-native architectures on AWS/Kubernetes, event-driven systems with Kafka, and pragmatic use of DynamoDB and PostgreSQL to solve high-throughput billing challenges. At Shippo he architected usage-based billing, drove domain separation to speed feature delivery, and led initiatives that recovered six-figure monthly revenue through improved reconciliation. Matthew is hands-on in production incident work, monitoring and automation, and has a track record of improving team processes and knowledge sharing through company-wide technical talks. Based in Fort Collins, he combines high energy and curiosity with a focus on measurable business impact and developer productivity.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical and Computer Engineering Computer Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin
Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering at University of North Texas