Matthew Healy
Software Engineer at Duna
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMatthew Healy is a software engineer with a decade of experience building backend systems, developer tooling, and production infrastructure from Edinburgh. Grounded in a mathematics degree, he brings a strong interest in types, proofs and programming languages to practical engineering problems—evident in his contributions to the Nickel configuration language where he improved type checking, parser robustness and error reporting. He has led major rewrites and simplifications of authentication and billing platforms at scale, and lately focused on platform and developer experience work as a staff engineer. Colleagues describe him with a self-deprecating sense of humor, but his track record shows rigorous, methodical problem solving and a knack for turning language- and type-level ideas into reliable production code.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Mathematics, Bachelor's degree Mathematics at The University of Edinburgh
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Github Skills (11)
type-system10
parser10
nickel10
rust10
parsing10
parse10
computer-engineering9
error-handling9
refactoring8
testing8
refactor8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
tweag/nickel
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
Better configuration for less
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 138 reviews, 37 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily contributed to the development of the Nickel configuration language, addressing core issues within the type system and parser. They fixed bugs related to type checking, specifically handling row type unification and preventing panics. Furthermore, they refactored record contracts to enhance efficiency and addressed lexing issues for enum tags. Additionally, the user implemented enhancements to the codebase, by introducing symbolic strings and improving error reporting.
configurationinfrastructureconfignickeldotfiles
matthew-healy/untitled-programming-language-project
Oct 2022 - Nov 2023
it's a programming language project. it's untitled.
Contributions:16 PRs, 66 pushes, 26 branches in 1 year 1 month
schemelanguage-designprogramming-languageuntitled
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