Matthew Lymer
Senior Software Engineer at VerticalScope Inc.
Canada
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Top SchoolMatthew Lymer is a senior software engineer and pragmatic technical leader with over 13 years of experience building scalable, reliable systems across startups and mid-size companies. He’s led teams, managed platform-level initiatives, and shipped high-throughput services—most notably architecting TripStack’s airfare platform handling 100M+ searches/day and improving reliability to 99.5%. Matthew blends hands-on engineering (C#, backend systems, DB design) with SRE practices, infrastructure-as-code, and automation to cut costs and deployment risk, including a cloud migration that reduced spend by 40%. He consistently improves developer onboarding and productivity through tooling and "home" repos for local provisioning, and champions observability via structured logging and monitoring. Comfortable working with clients and cross-functional teams, he pairs coaching and career development with deep technical contributions. Based in Canada, he favors practical, measurable solutions that prioritize uptime, testability, and fast iteration.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Programmer, Computer Programming, Computer Programmer, Computer Programming at Durham College
English
Stackoverflow
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472answers
46questions
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Github Skills (200)
dashboard10
grafana10
asp-net-core10
docker-desktop10
correlation10
netcore10
elasticsearch10
influxdb10
hybrid10
monitoring10
javascript10
webdriver10
architecture10
dotnet10
browser10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
MatthewLymer/TimeSheetParser
Feb 2020 - Sep 2023
Contributions:2 releases, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 7 months
MatthewLymer/ScriptMigrations
Nov 2013 - Dec 2016
Contributions:62 commits, 25 pushes in 3 years 1 month
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