Matthew Read
Senior Staff Engineer at Read Only Technology Ltd
Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolMatthew Read is a Senior Staff Engineer with over a decade of experience designing and shipping robust backend systems, device simulators, and developer tooling across companies from BlackBerry to Rent the Runway. He excels at technical leadership—driving large migrations (Java upgrades, build/test system replacements), defining shared libraries and architecture, and mentoring engineers while retaining a hands-on engineering focus in Java, C/C++, and operating systems. Known for pragmatic attention to maintainable code, testing, and security, he has delivered measurable impact such as enabling multi-agency data sharing and doubling client capacity at Mark43. Based in Ontario, he also combines an early, lifelong curiosity about low-level systems with an ability to translate that into scalable web and platform features for consumer and enterprise products.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Honours Bachelor of Software Engineering, Cognitive Science Option, Honours Bachelor of Software Engineering, Cognitive Science Option at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (159)
testing10
intellij-idea10
junit10
docker-container10
integration-testing10
docker-compose10
rest10
intellij-plugin10
code-editor10
test-automation10
selenium-webdriver10
jvm10
java10
hibernate10
intellij-platform10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
MatthewRyanRead/secretsanta
Nov 2018 - Apr 2021
A simple program to help with "Secret Santa" gift-giving assignments.
Contributions:1 release, 1 PR, 13 pushes in 2 years 5 months
pythongift-givingsantasecretsecret-santa
MatthewRyanRead/AdventOfCode
Dec 2021 - Jan 2024
Contributions:275 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
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