Matthew Schulkind
Engineer at Hyperscience
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Schulkind is an experienced engineer with 15 years building production software across startups and large tech companies, currently working at Hyperscience in New York. He brings deep Ruby on Rails and backend expertise complemented by frontend JavaScript, mobile (iOS/Android), and low-level C/C++ skills. Matthew has a history of shipping and operating systems at Google and founding/leading early-stage tech ventures, blending pragmatic engineering with product sensibility. An active open-source contributor, he has improved core libraries like Typhoeus (a popular libcurl wrapper) and Thoughtbot’s Paperclip, focusing on stability, performance and test reliability. He’s comfortable refactoring legacy code and hardening I/O and error handling in critical paths—skills honed by both enterprise and startup constraints. Columbia Engineering–trained, he pairs academic CS fundamentals with a hands-on, reliability-first mindset.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Columbia Engineering
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Github Skills (26)
objective-c10
caching10
ios10
cordova10
testing10
libcurl10
ruby10
mobile10
activerecord10
uiwebview9
geolocation9
performance-optimization9
mime9
c178
c118
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
thoughtbot/paperclip
Jul 2011 - Jun 2012
Easy file attachment management for ActiveRecord
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:7 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily focused on improving the `paperclip` library by addressing bugs and enhancing its functionality. Their contributions include fixing issues related to content type extension handling and style formatting. They also fixed existing tests and removed unfeasible tests to ensure the test suite's reliability. Their work involved modifications to the core library code and related test files.
activerecord
typhoeus/typhoeus
May 2011 - Dec 2013
Typhoeus wraps libcurl in order to make fast and reliable requests.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily contributed to the core functionality and stability of the Typhoeus library, which is a Ruby wrapper for libcurl. Their work involved fixing bugs related to queued requests and caching, as well as optimizing code to improve performance. The user refactored parts of the codebase, including moving the version number to a separate file. Additionally, they added improved error handling and addressed issues related to handling file descriptors.
libcurltyphoeus
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