Matthew Lehner
Principal Software Engineer at Hiive
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolMatthew Lehner is a Principal Software Engineer with 15 years of experience building reliable web and mobile products from startup to scale, currently leading engineering at Hiive from Victoria, BC. He blends hands-on full‑stack development (notably Ruby on Rails, Elixir, and Go) with product and operational leadership, having co-founded OneFeather and delivered federally recognized KYC and voting systems used by over 500k Canadians. Matthew has driven platform and observability improvements at Fly.io, led engineering and acquisition integrations at Pixel Union, and helped founders institutionalize teams and processes as CTO of Fluorescent Design. An active contributor to the Ruby on Rails ecosystem (including maintenance and Rails 4 migrations for fat_free_crm), he pairs pragmatic craftsmanship with a talent for shaping development lifecycles, OKRs, and CI/CD practices. Known for translating messy real‑world requirements into right‑sized technical solutions, he also brings uncommon domain breadth—from municipal and healthcare projects to secure government-grade voting systems.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) Accounting and Finance, Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) Accounting and Finance at Okanagan College
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Github Skills (20)
coffeescript10
rails10
ruby-on-rails10
back-end-development9
user-interface9
jquery9
backend9
front-end-development8
restful-api7
api-design7
api-rest7
rest-api7
html6
bundler6
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
fatfreecrm/fat_free_crm
Dec 2013 - Dec 2013
Ruby on Rails CRM platform
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:31 commits in 4 days
Contributions summary:Matthew contributed to the migration and maintenance of the Ruby on Rails CRM platform. Their commits primarily involved updating dependencies to Rails 4, refactoring routes, and fixing code related to form handling and user authentication. They also implemented features related to AJAX-based autocompletion using CoffeeScript and jQuery, enhancing the user interface with dynamic elements. These changes demonstrate a focus on both backend and frontend aspects of the application.
crmruby-on-rails
matthewlehner/dotfiles
May 2012 - Sep 2022
Contributions:150 commits, 78 pushes, 2 branches in 10 years 5 months
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