Matthew Watkins
Software Engineer at FamilySearch
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Watkins is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building and testing backend systems, most recently contributing at FamilySearch after four years at Amazon and a long tenure at ChannelAdvisor. He specializes in Java and C# development, automated testing, and TDD-driven QA, with hands-on experience in CI/CD, code repositories, and deployment across team environments. Matthew pairs his engineering work with a strong media and design background—proficient in After Effects, Premiere, Photoshop, and web design—which gives him an edge in crafting user-focused features and clear technical documentation. A North Carolina State University computer science graduate, he has moved from intern-level QA and support into sustained engineering roles, demonstrating steady growth and ownership. Colleagues describe him as practical and detail-oriented, comfortable bridging developer workflows and multimedia needs on product teams.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at North Carolina State UniversityWake Technical Community CollegeGraduate with Honors, Graduate with Honors at Cary High School
Spanish, English
Github Skills (139)
parser10
expressjs10
python10
branding10
creative-commons10
cpp10
javascript10
modular10
java10
installer10
vscode10
development-environment10
stdout10
licensing10
mercury10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
watkinsmatthewp/Herd
Oct 2017 - Oct 2018
Contributions:26 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year
matthewpwatkins/md-notepad
Jun 2020 - Mar 2021
Contributions:59 pushes, 2 branches in 9 months
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