Matthew Walker
American Fork, Utah, United States
Summary
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SeniorMatthew Walker is a senior backend engineer with over 15 years of hands-on experience and a 20+ year arc of building scalable, production-grade systems. He specializes in system architecture, performance tuning, and developer tooling, having improved message queue throughput by double digits and led PHP migrations to modern versions. Comfortable across the LAMP stack, containers, and databases, he pairs deep technical ownership with clear documentation and team training—skills he used to hand off complex scheduling and operations systems to in-house teams. Based in American Fork, Utah, Matthew thrives in collaborative environments where long-term reliability and measurable performance gains matter. His career blends startup agility with enterprise-grade engineering, and he often surfaces non-obvious wins by automating maintenance tasks that reduce operational load.
15 years of coding experience
English
Stackoverflow
448reputation
57kreached
13answers
4questions
Github Skills (103)
irc-bot10
chrome-extension10
rpg9
opengl9
top-down9
trading9
minecraft9
python9
forge9
firefox-addon9
fabric9
cpp9
multiplatform9
minecraft-forge9
irc9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
utoxin/concreep-redux
Dec 2021 - Nov 2024
Fork and extension of the classic Concreep mod for Factorio. Adds new creep modes, and improved settings.
Contributions:14 releases, 29 PRs, 27 pushes in 2 years 11 months
factorio-mod
utoxin/TimTheWordWarBot
Nov 2010 - Mar 2022
Timmy - The NaNoWriMo Wordwar Bot
Contributions:457 commits, 30 PRs, 180 pushes in 11 years 6 months
irc-botpythonbotnanowrimopython3
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