Matthew Russell
Staff Engineer at Mercury
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Russell is a product-focused engineering leader with 14 years of experience building and scaling secure, cloud-native web platforms, currently serving as Head of Engineering, Risk at Mercury in Portland. He combines hands-on expertise in Haskell, React frontends and PostgreSQL with a proven track record of turning customer requirements into end-to-end, containerized solutions and repeatable release processes. Matthew has led rapid post-acquisition integrations and hiring pipelines, driven platform scalability improvements (including a 50% concurrent user uplift), and established incident management and IaC practices across teams. He’s equally comfortable shipping core libraries and improving developer experience—as evidenced by substantial contributions to redux-auth-wrapper—while mentoring teams through technical transitions like Kubernetes adoption. Colleagues rely on him to bridge product, security and engineering concerns and to get the hardest production problems resolved.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science and Political Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science and Political Science at Tufts University
Github Skills (7)
user-authentication10
authentication10
javascript10
react-router10
react10
redux10
testing10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
mjrussell/redux-auth-wrapper
Jan 2016 - Mar 2022
A React Higher Order Component (HOC) for handling Authentication and Authorization with Routing and Redux
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:284 commits, 116 PRs, 251 pushes in 6 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Matthew contributed significantly to the `redux-auth-wrapper` library, primarily focused on enhancing its functionality and improving the user experience. They addressed bugs related to authentication redirects, ensuring proper routing after successful authentication. The user implemented a basic example showcasing the library's usage, including features like user authentication, role-based access control, and route protection. Furthermore, the user added and expanded tests to cover deeply nested components and various authorization scenarios, ensuring the library's robustness.
reactauthorizationauthenticationroutinghandling
Simspace/mattermost-server
Jun 2019 - Mar 2022
Open source Slack-alternative in Golang and React - Mattermost
Contributions:1 PR, 9 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 9 months
golangreactslackmattermostslack-alternative
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