Matthew Johnson
Software Engineer at Netflix Inc.
Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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RockstarMatthew Johnson is a pragmatic software engineer with 13 years of experience building and refining backend systems, based in Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania. He brings a focus on code quality and maintainability, evidenced by contributions to notable open-source projects like Netflix/edda where he improved documentation, code formatting, and internal APIs. Comfortable working in JVM ecosystems, he has hands-on experience addressing subtle Scala issues and modernizing legacy code to improve developer experience. Matthew combines steady problem-solving with an eye for developer ergonomics, often tackling documentation and tooling gaps that others overlook. Colleagues rely on him to stabilize codebases and deliver incremental, high-impact improvements that reduce future technical debt.
13 years of coding experience
Github Skills (3)
aws-sdk10
scala10
code-formatting9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Netflix/edda
Dec 2014 - Jun 2020
AWS API Read Cache
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 15 PRs, 8 pushes in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily focused on improving the codebase by addressing issues related to ScalaDoc links and postfix operator features. They modified the `AwsClient` class by updating documentation links and made changes to several other files to improve internal code structure and ensure proper functionality of components. The changes also included the application of scalafmt to improve code formatting and overall readability.
apiaws-apiread-apicacheaws
copperlight/spectator-js-nodejsmetrics
Jul 2019 - Apr 2025
Generate node.js internal metrics using the nflx-spectator node module
Contributions:38 pushes, 27 branches in 5 years 9 months
spectatorinternalnode-jsnode-modulenodejs
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