Matthew O'keefe
Director Of Software Engineering at Field Advantage
Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolMatthew O'keefe is a Director of Software Engineering with 13 years of hands-on experience building full-stack, user-focused products and leading engineering teams. He has progressed from mobile and embedded projects to architecting scalable microservices and developer workflows, most recently contributing core fixes to the widely used Botkit open-source project. Known for blending technical rigor with mentorship, he champions code quality, reusable architecture, and pragmatic delivery across enterprise and startup environments. Based in Saint Paul, he pairs an entrepreneurial mindset with a passion for making hard problems easy for users, and he brings a personal commitment to continuous self-development—outdoors, fitness, and family—which shapes his collaborative leadership style.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, CIS/CS, Bachelor, CIS/CS at The College of St. Scholastica2003-2007 Andover High School
Latin, English
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Github Skills (8)
botkit10
bots10
javascript10
chatbot10
googlebot10
typescript-types9
typescript9
typescripts9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
howdyai/botkit
Aug 2019 - Sep 2019
Botkit is an open source developer tool for building chat bots, apps and custom integrations for major messaging platforms.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 3 comments in 28 days
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily focused on modifying core functionalities within the `botkit` library. Their commits included adjustments to the `loadModules` function, allowing for the support of `.ts` file extensions. They also made modifications to the `core.ts` file, including removal of incorrect jsdoc, and merged branches. These changes suggest active involvement in maintaining and updating the botkit library's core components.
alexa-skills-kitbot-applicationbotbotkitfacebook-messenger
O-Mutt/time_to_psc_csc
Apr 2019 - May 2023
A quick react based calculator for Minnesota to determine, when someone is having a stroke, whether to bring them to the nearest PSC or CSC rated hospital.
Contributions:402 PRs, 530 pushes, 727 branches in 4 years 1 month
reacthospitalnearestpsccalculator
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