Matthew Piatetsky
Senior Software Engineer at Reddit, Inc.
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Piatetsky is a Senior Software Engineer based in Boston with nine years of experience building both front-end and back-end systems at scale, currently contributing at Reddit after a six-year tenure at edX. He has a strong track record in experimentation and revenue-driving product work—owning Optimizely integrations, designing pricing experiments, and implementing UI features that improved course enrollment and monetization. His contributions span React front-end enhancements for Open edX and backend services handling ecommerce, course discovery, and API improvements, showing fluency across the stack. At Kyruus he dramatically sped up data ingestion and reporting pipelines, cutting runtimes from hours to under one hour and stabilizing production outages. Matthew pairs practical engineering (Python, Flask/Django, React) with product-minded experiment design, and he’s presented findings internally and run trainings to scale knowledge across teams.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science, 3.88, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science, 3.88 at Boston University
English, Russian, Spanish, French
Github Skills (24)
api-rest10
javascript10
data-service10
back-end-development10
python10
apidoc10
api-design10
restful-api10
django10
ecommerce10
user-interface10
webservice10
api10
front-end-development10
rest-api10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
openedx/course-discovery
Aug 2016 - Feb 2021
Service providing access to consolidated course and program metadata
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:108 commits, 146 PRs, 804 pushes in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily contributed to the backend service, as indicated by the repository description and topics. The commits reveal the addition of marketing URL paths, modifications to models and serializers to incorporate marketing URLs, and the integration of program types into a search endpoint. Furthermore, the user implemented changes related to deduplication and filtering course runs. The user's work demonstrates a focus on enhancing course metadata, search functionality, and data presentation within the backend system.
data-managementconsolidateditilbackend-servicemetadata
openedx-unsupported/ecommerce
Jul 2017 - Mar 2021
(Deprecated) Service for managing edX's product catalog and handling orders for those products
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:57 reviews, 66 commits, 109 PRs in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily contributed to the `ecommerce` service, specifically focusing on the `basket` and `refund` modules. Their work included adding and removing functionality such as adding UTM parameters to redirect URLs and modifying the process of refund events. They also made changes to improve API functionality to support coupon codes and address issues with bundles. The commits reveal development work on APIs and payment process.
djangoedxproduct-catalogbackend-servicehandling
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