Matthew Lanigan
Senior Software Engineer at Kiavi
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Lanigan is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building full-stack web applications and infrastructure, currently at Kiavi in Pittsburgh. He brings deep expertise in Ruby, JavaScript, PostgreSQL, REST/GraphQL, and relational database tooling, and has a track record of improving reliability in production systems like loan origination platforms and enterprise device management. An active open-source contributor, he strengthened caching and prepared-statement behavior in the widely used Sequel Ruby toolkit, demonstrating attention to edge-case robustness. Matthew’s background in linguistics and a master’s in Japanese enriches his work with strong communication skills and a knack for cross-cultural collaboration and translation. He combines pragmatic engineering with a curiosity for low-level database behavior and resilient integrations.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts (M.A.), Japanese Language and Culture, 3.67 GPA, Master of Arts (M.A.), Japanese Language and Culture, 3.67 GPA at Chubu UniversityB.A., Linguistics, 3.57 GPA (cum laude), B.A., Linguistics, 3.57 GPA (cum laude) at Ohio University
English, Japanese
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Github Skills (15)
testing10
databases10
caching10
prepared-statements10
relational-databases10
sql-database10
database10
ruby10
memcached9
php6
mongodb6
callable6
invoke6
autoload6
mysql6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
jeremyevans/sequel
Apr 2013 - Sep 2018
Sequel: The Database Toolkit for Ruby
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 1 comment in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily contributed to improving the caching mechanism and testing within the Sequel database toolkit. They addressed potential exceptions in the Memcached integration, specifically rescuing errors when deleting cached entries. Furthermore, the user added support for a new prepared statement type, :single_value, and included it in the testing specifications. Their work focused on enhancing the robustness and functionality of the caching and prepared statements features.
databaseruby
rintaun/.rc.d
Nov 2018 - Sep 2023
Contributions:49 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 10 months
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