Matthew Pegula
Staff Engineer at Shopify
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolMatthew Pegula is a Staff Engineer with 14 years of experience who blends full-stack development, applied machine learning, hardware integration, and product strategy to build immersive, high-performance experiences. He has led engineering teams and shipped software for millions of users across roles from VP of Creative Technology at Deeplocal to founding engineer at Sizzle AI and now at Shopify. Known for turning experimental prototypes into production-ready systems, he specializes in architecting invisible backends and creative tech that powers interactive installations and machine-learning-driven events. He also teaches computer science as an adjunct professor, bringing industry practice into the classroom. Based in Pittsburgh, he pairs hands-on coding with strategic leadership and a knack for making seemingly impossible interactions feel seamless. An unconventional strength is his history of combining experiential advertising requirements with rigorous engineering discipline to deliver both delight and reliability.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Allegheny College
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Github contributions (5)
Deeplocal/lights
Dec 2011 - May 2012
Contributions:25 commits in 5 months
Deeplocal/fruit-genie
May 2019 - Jun 2019
Contributions:1 review, 6 commits, 2 PRs in 28 days
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