Matthew O'riordan
CEO And Co-founder at Guild
Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
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Top SchoolMatthew O'riordan is a seasoned founder and CEO with 16+ years of hands-on engineering and product leadership, best known for co-founding Ably and building the realtime infrastructure layer that serves hundreds of millions of users and handles over 2 trillion operations monthly. He combines systems architecture expertise with a developer-first product sensibility, having kept Ably at five years of 100% uptime while powering customers like HubSpot and NASCAR. A prolific open-source contributor in the Ruby ecosystem, his work on projects like fog and jsbin shows a practical focus on resilient cloud integrations, DNS/Route53 fixes, and API security. Based in Chamonix, he also lends governance and advisory experience through roles with the OpenAPI Initiative and early-stage messaging startups. He’s passionate about the shift to realtime experiences and about building sustainable, engineering-led companies that make complex infrastructure simple for developers.
16 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
English,Afrikaans,Maths,Science,Computer Science,Economics, English,Afrikaans,Maths,Science,Computer Science,Economics at Carmel College
French
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Github Skills (46)
integration-testing10
debug10
javascript10
expressjs10
apidoc10
api-design10
nosql10
testing10
amazon-elasticsearch10
rspec10
test-framework10
capybara10
ruby10
elasticsearchquery10
api10
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
mattheworiordan/capybara-screenshot
Oct 2011 - Dec 2021
Automatically save screen shots when a Capybara scenario fails
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 release, 1 review, 232 commits in 10 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily contributed to the core functionality of the `capybara-screenshot` library, a tool designed to automatically save screenshots upon Capybara scenario failures. Their work involved updating the library's version, integrating support for new testing frameworks like RSpec and Minitest, and refining the screenshot capture process. They addressed issues related to test environment compatibility and expanded the tool's capabilities to include advanced features like pruning old screenshots. The contributions demonstrate a focus on enhancing the library's functionality, versatility, and overall usability for developers.
minecraftshotsminitestfailsscenario
fog/fog-aws
Mar 2015 - Apr 2018
Module for the 'fog' gem to support Amazon Web Services http://aws.amazon.com/
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 6 PRs, 6 comments in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily focused on modifying AWS DNS integration within the 'fog-aws' gem. Their contributions involved fixing bugs related to ELB hosted zone ID lookups, adding support for new AWS regions (eu-central-1, Paris, Osaka), and updating DNS records for dual-stack ELBs. They also addressed issues related to Ruby 1.8.7 compatibility and other minor fixes within the AWS DNS module.
test-kitchenamazonfoghttp-servicesweb-services
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