Matthew Sullivan is a Senior Engineering Manager based in Old Toronto with a decade of experience leading teams to deliver maintainable, production-grade web applications. At Thinkific he progressed from senior engineer to engineering manager and now senior engineering manager, blending hands-on full-stack expertise (JavaScript/TypeScript, Node, React, PostgreSQL) with people leadership and delivery ownership. He has led cross-functional teams in fintech and e-commerce, championing code quality through regular reviews, proofs of concept, and pragmatic architecture choices. Matthew also brings teaching and mentorship experience from Durham College and a background building mobile and BLE-enabled iOS apps, signaling a strong appetite for integrating emerging technologies. Colleagues would describe him as organized, independent, and detail-oriented, with a knack for simplifying complex problems into elegant engineering solutions.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Multimedia Design, Advanced Diploma, Web Page, Digital/Multimedia and Information Resources Design, Multimedia Design, Advanced Diploma, Web Page, Digital/Multimedia and Information Resources Design at Durham College
GraphQL API backed by JWT authentication using Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL.
Contributions:3 releases, 11 PRs, 26 pushes in 3 years 7 months
ruby-on-railsapigraphql-apirailsauthentication
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Matthew Sullivan - Senior Engineering Manager at Thinkific