Matthew Russell
Software Developer at Ford Motor Company
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolMatthew Russell is a versatile software developer with 12 years of experience blending web and embedded systems development with applied environmental engineering. He has built low-latency LIDAR processing and visualization tools in C++/Qt/OpenGL, managed cross-platform builds and dependency tooling, and now develops infotainment and embedded software for Ford, often bridging platform differences between QNX and AOSP. His background in high-resolution atmospheric modeling gives him a strong data-driven mindset—he routinely applies scientific rigor to algorithm design and model evaluation when working with large geospatial datasets. Equally comfortable in front-end AngularJS apps and back-end/DevOps tasks, he excels at automating tedious workflows and optimizing performance across heterogeneous systems. A former founder and long-time volunteer organizer, he brings entrepreneurial grit and mentorship experience alongside a formal engineering education and graduate research in environmental engineering.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Environmental Eng, Atmospheric Modelling, PhD, Environmental Eng, Atmospheric Modelling at Carleton University
French, English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
2,008reputation
116kreached
27answers
63questions
Github Skills (200)
ply10
point-cloud-library10
cmake10
vim10
lua10
nvim10
cpp10
ninja10
middleware10
vsomeip10
api10
service-discovery10
computer-vision10
scalable10
text-editor10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
kheaactua/vsomeip-sd
Jun 2023 - Mar 2025
An implementation of Scalable service-Oriented MiddlewarE over IP
Contributions:98 pushes, 29 branches in 1 year 9 months
kheaactua/mayofest
Mar 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:3 PRs, 100 pushes, 21 branches in 1 year 2 months
assets
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.