Matthew Planchard
Principal Engineer at Spec
Vermont, United States
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Top SchoolMatthew Planchard is a Principal Engineer with 11+ years building reliable, scalable systems across on-prem and cloud environments, currently leading architecture and delivery at Spec. He brings deep full-stack and SRE experience—networking, databases, containerization, deployment pipelines—and a track record shipping production services in Python, Rust, JavaScript and more. Matthew is an active open-source contributor (notably improving backend signature handling for pypiserver) and publishes projects in Rust and Python. His work is guided by a laboratory-trained experimental mindset (M.S. in Biochemistry), favoring immutability and functional paradigms to drive maintainable design and iterative improvement. A pragmatic technical leader, he pairs hands-on implementation with mentoring and a focus on kindness, honesty, and long-term business value. Based in Vermont, he seeks teams committed to diversity and positive impact.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at The University of Texas at AustinMaster of Science (M.S.) Biochemistry, Master of Science (M.S.) Biochemistry at The University of Southern MississippiSt. Stanislaus College Preparatory Academy
English, French, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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mongodb
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Github Skills (12)
python10
uploader9
mongodb9
file-upload9
file-handling9
testing8
pytest8
pip6
oop6
unit-testing6
rust6
mocking6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
pypiserver/pypiserver
Jan 2016 - Feb 2021
Minimal PyPI server for uploading & downloading packages with pip/easy_install
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:13 releases, 74 reviews, 245 commits in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily contributed to implementing and improving the backend functionality of the PyPI server. Their work focused on adding support for uploading and storing GPG signatures, which involved modifying core components to handle `.asc` files and updating tests for signature handling. Additionally, the user refactored parts of the code related to file uploads and signature handling.
downloadingpythoneasy-installpippypi
ihiji/falcon-marshmallow
Mar 2017 - Sep 2017
Marshmallow serialization/deserialization middleware for Falcon
Contributions:21 commits, 14 PRs, 8 pushes in 6 months
deserializationfalconserializationmmapserializer
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