Matthew Hutchinson
Staff Engineer at Shopify
Ballymena, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Hutchinson is a Staff Engineer with 17 years of experience crafting pragmatic, un-bloated software and leading teams from early-stage products to high-traffic platforms. A Ruby and Rails specialist comfortable across front-end (Hotwire, JS) and back-end systems, he blends hands-on coding with technical management—most recently at Shopify and previously shaping HEY and FreeAgent. He has a track record of shipping features that matter (workflows, calendar iCal support, onboarding experiments, Open Banking) and operating at scale—handling PII, outages, and database sharding rollouts. A tinkerer at heart, he enjoys digging into systems and contributes to open source (improving gif/video capture and hooks in the popular lolcommits project), bringing curiosity and engineering rigor to long-lived codebases. Based in Northern Ireland, he pairs an MSc in Telecommunications with deep product-focused engineering and a preference for simple, durable solutions.
17 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Telecommunications, MSc Telecommunications at Queen's University BelfastBEI Scheme Business and Economics, BEI Scheme Business and Economics at Oklahoma City University
English
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Github Skills (17)
ffmpeg10
ruby10
scripting9
shell9
script9
sh9
webcam8
activerecord6
vim6
homebrew6
apache-flex6
notice6
actionscript6
macvim6
python6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
lolcommits/lolcommits
Jun 2013 - Dec 2022
:camera: git-based selfies for software developers
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:42 releases, 1 review, 479 commits in 9 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily contributed to the lolcommits project by adding and improving features related to the video capture and animated GIF generation process. These enhancements included the implementation of an option for animated GIF capturing on macOS through VideoSnap, and subsequently, the refinement of the frame selection and delay mechanisms for animated GIFs. Furthermore, the user made improvements to the post-commit hook enabling/disabling functionality, and refactored the tranzlate plugin.
webcamcameraselfiesgit-addonsselfie
lolcommits/lolcommits-loltext
Apr 2017 - Feb 2021
Lolcommits commit message annotation plugin
Contributions:62 commits, 8 PRs, 75 pushes in 3 years 11 months
lolcommitsmessageannotationcommit
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