Matthew Petty
Senior Software Engineer (Ruby On Rails) at Kizmeta
Lone Jack, Missouri, United States
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Top SchoolMatthew Petty is a Senior Software Engineer specializing in Ruby on Rails with 17 years of professional experience and over 15 years building end-to-end Ruby and JavaScript applications. He blends an art-school sensibility with deep systems grounding as a former Linux sysadmin, bringing a strong user-experience focus to back-end architecture and front-end polish. At Kizmeta he drives production-grade Rails systems while translating business needs into maintainable code and practical features. Colloquial creativity and adaptability make him comfortable in cross-functional roles—from business analysis to operations—so he reliably bridges product, design, and infrastructure. Outside of work he’s a multilingual thinker and tabletop gamer whose varied interests inform pragmatic, human-centered engineering decisions. He’s also known for an unexpected talent: making excellent full-stack pancakes.
17 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BS Information Systems, BS Information Systems at Columbia College
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Github Skills (160)
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
lodestone/dicebag
Sep 2017 - Mar 2025
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push in 7 years 6 months
dice-rollingpythonrollingsimulationtextual
lodestone/kindle
Jul 2011 - Apr 2018
Contributions:90 commits, 4 PRs, 57 pushes in 6 years 10 months
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