Matthew Nowack
Software Engineer L6 - Marketplace Platform
Pataskala, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Nowack is a seasoned software engineer with 16 years of experience building scalable backend and marketplace systems, currently focused on powering live selling at Whatnot. He progressed through senior and staff roles at Discord and leadership positions at Twilio, bringing deep expertise in backend infrastructure, APIs, and platform reliability. A hands-on contributor to open-source projects like the Orator ORM, he has practical database and schema-level experience that shores up production stability. Based in Pataskala, Ohio, he pairs technical leadership with pragmatic engineering—often tackling tricky edge cases such as SQLite foreign-key behavior that many teams overlook.
16 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Bowling Green State University
Github Skills (11)
databases10
orm10
sqlite10
sql10
python10
database10
db-schema9
database-schema9
schema9
database-design9
database-management9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
sdispater/orator
Feb 2016 - Nov 2016
The Orator ORM provides a simple yet beautiful ActiveRecord implementation.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Database Engineer
Back-end Developer / Database EngineerContributions:9 commits, 6 PRs, 2 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Matthew contributed to the Orator ORM project, focusing on database interaction and ORM functionalities. Their work involved fixing bugs related to the handling of database schema, specifically for SQLite databases and foreign key constraints. They also refactored code to improve copy operations and standardizing name resolution within the database manager, enhancing the overall stability and reliability of the ORM.
pythonorator-ormrailsrubydatabase
discord/zen_monitor
Dec 2018 - Jan 2021
Efficient Process.monitor replacement
Contributions:4 reviews, 16 commits, 8 PRs in 2 years 1 month
process-monitormonitormonitoringreplacement
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