Matthew O'brien
Staff Software Engineer at Huntress
Fargo, North Dakota, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolMatthew O'brien is a Staff Software Engineer with 17 years of full-stack web development experience, grounded in Rails and JavaScript and skilled at quickly adopting new tools. He excels as a technical lead entrusted to modernize mature and legacy systems, driving practices like frequent deploys, feature flags, and observability. His work spans performance tuning, CI improvements, and reducing load across complex web clusters—impacting both user experience and developer productivity. Matthew pairs customer-focused product thinking with a socio-technical perspective, seeking outcomes that work for users and teams alike. At Dorsata and FBS he led measurable improvements (including a ~75% median app load reduction and a 33% web-cluster load reduction) and helped grow and onboard engineering teams. Based in Fargo, ND, he combines deep Rails expertise with a pragmatic emphasis on developer experience and operational reliability.
14 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Mathematics and Computer Science, BS, Mathematics and Computer Science at North Dakota State University
Github Skills (10)
client-library10
spark-api10
ruby-client10
ruby9
rails9
api9
spark8
react8
open-source7
typescript7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
sparkapi/spark_api
Jun 2011 - Mar 2015
Ruby client library for communication with the Spark API
Contributions:17 commits, 5 PRs, 6 pushes in 3 years 10 months
apiclient-libraryspark-apicommunicationruby
mjobrien/forem
Jan 2021 - Jan 2021
For empowering community 🌱
Contributions:2 branches in 26 days
reacttypescriptempowering
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