Matthew Gradidge
Staff Software Developer at Proxify
British Columbia, Canada
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolMatthew Gradidge is a Staff Software Developer with 14 years of experience building resilient, cost-efficient backend systems and event-driven architectures across fintech, e-commerce, and retail. He has led high-impact migrations and performance efforts—most notably moving Walmart Canada from Cassandra to PostgreSQL and eliminating Black Friday outages at Shopify while cutting resource usage substantially. Proficient in Clojure, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Kafka and cloud-native patterns, he combines hands-on coding with pragmatic architectural leadership. He also champions developer productivity through REPL-driven workflows and incremental, low-risk migrations that minimise operational blast radius. Based in Montreal, he pairs startup agility with large-enterprise discipline, consistently turning complex real-time data flows into reliable production services.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bsc. Web Technologies, Bsc. Web Technologies at University of Greenwich
Github Skills (25)
jsonp10
encryption-algorithms9
crypto8
encryption8
clojure8
nrepl8
cryptography8
security8
cider8
clojure-test7
vim-plugin7
apache-kafka7
vim6
interactive6
php-api6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
lamp/lamp
Jun 2016 - Jan 2020
Contributions:1 PR, 9 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 7 months
lamp/paypal_adaptive_gateway
Sep 2011 - Feb 2014
Contributions:13 commits in 2 years 5 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.