Matthew Tanous
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Shopify
Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Tanous is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building data-intensive, merchant-facing systems and integrations across startups and scale-ups. Currently a cross-team technical lead at Shopify, he drives Growth Enable initiatives that turn complex data and experiments into actionable insights for merchants. His background includes architecting cloud-native data pipelines and customer-facing Rails apps at Red Canary, plus performance-focused work handling petabytes of ingest and Microsoft Threat Protection integrations. An active contributor to the Ruby ecosystem, he strengthened error handling in the popular Ruby on Jets framework by integrating ActiveSupport::Rescuable and adding tests and docs. Based in Chattanooga, he pairs systems-level thinking with hands-on implementation—from infrastructure and data processing to Rails and testing—bringing pragmatic engineering to high-throughput environments.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Engineering at University of Wyoming
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Github Skills (12)
lambda10
error-handling10
lambdas10
aws10
jet10
ruby10
rspec9
gcc6
googletest6
compiler-errors6
boost6
dictionary6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
rubyonjets/jets
Feb 2019 - Feb 2019
Ruby on Jets
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 2 issues in 8 days
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily focused on enhancing the error handling and controller functionality within the Ruby on Jets framework. Their contributions included integrating `ActiveSupport::Rescuable` into the base controller to enable exception handling and rescue mechanisms. Additionally, the user added related testing and documentation updates, improving the framework's ability to handle exceptions and provide informative error responses. This work enhances the robustness and usability of the framework for developers.
serverlessrubyonjetsrubyawslambdaruby-on-jets
CodingAnarchy/project_euler
Apr 2015 - Jul 2022
Contributions:37 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 4 months
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