Matthew Nakatani
Senior Software Engineer at World of Stereo
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Nakatani is a pragmatic software engineer with nine years of experience building serverless and cloud-native systems, smart contract tooling, and e-commerce automation from Portland, Oregon. He has driven backend and DevOps work at ApeWorX—contributing significant refactors and feature work to the popular ape smart contract framework—and led AWS-based SaaS and FastAPI backends while improving CI/CD and Docker efficiency. His background spans enterprise-facing AWS technical account management, extensive serverless automation for e-commerce that doubled sales through ad and catalogue automation, and hands-on smart contract and DeFi engineering in open source. Entrepreneurial and technically versatile, he also runs a 3D printing business and applies maker-level hardware skills to software problems. Colleagues value him for turning messy integrations into reliable, cost-efficient systems and for a curious, neurodivergent perspective that surfaces unusual but practical solutions.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
No Degree Broadcast Electronic Communication Arts, No Degree Broadcast Electronic Communication Arts at San Francisco State UniversityAssociate’s Degree Computer Networking Information Technology - Cisco Routing & Switching, Associate’s Degree Computer Networking Information Technology - Cisco Routing & Switching at City College of San Francisco
Github Skills (13)
smart-contracts10
solidity10
vyper10
ethereum10
python10
web3js9
apidoc9
developer-tools9
api9
web-framework8
app-framework8
application-framework8
testing8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
ApeWorX/ape
Apr 2021 - Jan 2023
The smart contract development tool for Pythonistas, Data Scientists, and Security Professionals
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:246 reviews, 31 commits, 66 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily contributed to refactoring and improving the `ape` smart contract development tool. Their work included modifying compiler APIs, updating ABI types, and addressing issues related to compiler functionality and error messages. Furthermore, the user implemented features like extracting package manifests and integrating contract types with explorer plugins. They also worked on improving the `send_everything` transfer function, and integrated package metadata into the configuration and project manager.
scientistspythonbrownieethereumcontract
sabotagebeats/ape
Jul 2021 - Oct 2023
The DeFi development tool for Pythonistas, Data Scientists, and Security Professionals
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 371 pushes in 2 years 3 months
scientistspythonsecurity-professionalsethereumsecurity
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