Matthew Thompson
Senior Director Of Engineering at Tropic
Snellville, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Thompson is a people-first Senior Director of Engineering with over a decade of experience leading Agile teams from design through delivery, currently scaling engineering at Tropic. He brings hands-on full-stack expertise in Ruby on Rails, modern JavaScript frameworks, SQL and NoSQL databases, TDD with RSpec, and CI/CD on AWS, paired with release management and server maintenance experience. A relentless advocate for quality and good documentation, he has a track record of improving defect SLAs and shipping reliable releases while mentoring engineers and fostering empathetic, team-oriented cultures. Matthew combines product and client empathy—shaped by prior roles from copywriting to insurance—with technical judgment to find the “right” long-term solution rather than quick fixes. Outside of tech he’s applied his leadership as a long-time youth and high-school coach, a background that informs his collaborative, coaching-driven management style. He’s known for creative problem-solving and translating business needs into testable, maintainable engineering outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
English, English at Georgia State University
Spanish
Github Skills (8)
csv6
dsl6
activeresource5
chargify4
ruby4
react2
rails1
csv-parser1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
NiceMLT/til
Feb 2019 - Mar 2022
A log of something new I learned or encountered today
Contributions:20 commits, 1 PR, 22 pushes in 3 years 1 month
learnedtoday
maxio-com/comma
Aug 2018 - May 2023
Comma is a small CSV (ie. comma separated values) generation extension for Ruby objects, that lets you seamlessly define a CSV output format via a small DSL
Contributions:11 PRs, 17 pushes, 10 branches in 4 years 8 months
csvdslruby
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