Matthew 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.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bsc. Web Technologies, Bsc. Web Technologies at University of Greenwich
Contributions:1 PR, 9 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 7 months
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Matthew Gradidge - Staff Software Developer at Proxify