Matthew Keeler
Software Engineer at Tortugas Consulting, LLC
Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolMatthew Keeler is a seasoned Staff Software Engineer with 13–14 years building scalable backends and APIs across PHP, Python, Ruby, C#, and Java, now driving platform work at LaunchDarkly. He combines hands-on polyglot development with strong convictions around clean architecture and domain‑driven design, and has a long track record of paying down technical debt to boost developer velocity. As a founder of Tortugas Consulting he architected systems for diverse industries, acted as SCRUM master for distributed teams, and modernized legacy stacks using Docker and cloud infrastructure. At Research Square he led cross‑functional teams, cut ML inference times from minutes to seconds, and increased team throughput through mentorship and structural changes. He also contributes to open‑source issue‑tracking tooling, focusing on backend reliability, auth, and file handling—evidence of his pragmatic, infrastructure‑first approach to product engineering.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, minor in Mathematics, BS, Computer Science, minor in Mathematics at Emporia State UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at Wichita State University
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Github Skills (17)
user-authentication10
authentication10
php10
file-upload10
bugtracking10
mysql9
keyboard-shortcuts9
configuration-management9
emacs9
lisp6
fork6
sql6
common-lisp6
github6
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Programming languages (31)
Github contributions (5)
thebuggenie/thebuggenie
Jul 2012 - Oct 2014
The Bug Genie is a friendly project management and issue tracking tool
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 commits in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily contributed to backend functionality, focusing on file upload handling, user authentication, and configuration settings within the Bug Genie project. Their work included modifying code related to upload limits, OpenID integration, and password generation. Furthermore, the user addressed specific issues such as enabling file uploads and fixing errors in the system, alongside code formatting improvements.
timetrackingissue-trackingproject-planningtrackingproject-management
launchdarkly/rust-server-sdk-evaluation
Jan 2022 - Jan 2025
Types and eval logic for LaunchDarkly Rust SDKs
Contributions:2 releases, 7 reviews, 31 PRs in 3 years
rustlaunchdarkly-sdk-componentsdkslaunchdarklysdk
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