Matthew Hanlon is a Principal Full Stack Software Engineer with 13+ years of professional experience and over 15 years coding across computational science, payments, restaurant procurement, and social platforms. He combines hands-on front- and back-end engineering with architecture and product-minded leadership, having led greenfield systems, multi-tenant SaaS at scale, and integrations with high-throughput social APIs. As a founding engineer at Zitti he co-designed a near real-time, cross-vendor pricing model and embedded generative AI to cut onboarding time by 80% and surface actionable pricing intelligence for restaurants. At Oracle and Finalsite he optimized performance for large-scale, multi-tenant systems and rebuilt payment flows to reduce costs, while at TACC he managed teams delivering HPC-facing web and mobile tools. A strong proponent of web standards and accessibility, he also contributes to open-source Java templating (handlebars.java) and brings uncommon domain insight from a prior career managing restaurants. Based in Round Rock, Texas, he pairs rigorous academic honors in math and CS with a practical focus on high-quality, maintainable code that improves user outcomes.
13 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Computer Science, Masters Computer Science at University of South Alabama
B.S. Pure Mathematics, B.S. Pure Mathematics at Spring Hill College
Logic-less and semantic Mustache templates with Java
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:11 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily focused on enhancing the Handlebars.java library by introducing new features and improving existing ones. They added a JodaTime helper with pattern, style, and ISO formatting options, along with tests for the same. Furthermore, they addressed code style issues and refactored the I18nHelper to be compatible with HTML minification.
Contributions:4 releases, 565 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 11 months
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Matthew Hanlon - Principal Full Stack Software Engineer at Splunk