Matthew Johnson
Senior Professional Lecturer, Department Of Computing Technology at Marist College
Town of Lloyd, New York, United States
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Top SchoolMatthew Johnson is a Senior Professional Lecturer in Computing Technology with 11 years of higher-education experience and two decades of software development practice bridging academia and industry. He has designed and taught dozens of undergraduate and graduate courses, led departmental curriculum development, and served as department chair, demonstrating both instructional breadth and academic leadership. Prior to academia he led product-quality engineering as a senior developer, and he has consulted on certification content for IBM, highlighting a mix of practical engineering and rigorous theoretical grounding. Matthew runs Marist’s summer game design program and has repeatedly translated hands-on, project-based learning into durable student outcomes. He combines deep knowledge of computer science fundamentals with a knack for turning classroom concepts into working systems and real-world curricula. Based in the Hudson Valley, he pairs mathematical training (BS/MS) with sustained teaching innovation and occasional volunteer game programming.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of the Arts, Mathematics, Associate of the Arts, Mathematics at Bard College at Simon's RockMaster of Science, Computer Science, Master of Science, Computer Science at SUNY New Paltz
English, Spanish
Github Skills (12)
subset7
ghc5
servant5
python4
vim3
haskell3
gdscript2
godot1
visualizations1
spotify-api1
spotify1
tracks1
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Precipice-Games/Odyseed
Feb 2023 - Jan 2025
Game Jam 2023
Contributions:29 PRs, 40 pushes, 19 branches in 1 year 11 months
Marist-CMPT435-Algorithms/class-examples
Feb 2021 - Mar 2023
Contributions:5 commits, 1 push, 4 branches in 2 years 1 month
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