Matthew Zagaja
Software Architect at TED Conferences
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolMatthew Zagaja is a software architect with 12 years of experience building pragmatic, user-focused systems for civic and media organizations. Currently architecting Media Cloud and Pipelines at TED, he brings deep Ruby on Rails, Docker, and Node.js expertise honed through senior backend and lead web developer roles. He pairs technical leadership with public-minded work—at Code for Boston he recruits technologists into government and at MAPC he delivered planning tools that prioritize usability and reliability. Trained as a lawyer (J.D.) and grounded in policy-oriented technology (B.S. Society, Technology & Policy), he often navigates the intersection of law, data, and software to produce auditable, mission-driven solutions. His background in campaign operations, elections law, and municipal commissions gives him rare practical insight into how technical systems affect governance and community outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Wethersfield High SchoolB.S. Society Technology & Policy, B.S. Society Technology & Policy at Worcester Polytechnic InstituteJ.D., J.D. at University of Connecticut School of Law
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
146reputation
2kreached
3answers
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Github Skills (200)
testing10
linter10
graphql-api10
trigger10
api10
removal10
siri10
mongodb10
activemodel10
static-code-analysis10
scraper10
subgraph10
python10
bash10
docker-desktop10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
MAPC/digitalhub
Aug 2018 - Jul 2020
Regional Plan Update Digital Hub
Contributions:257 PRs, 415 pushes, 213 branches in 1 year 11 months
updateregionalplan
mzagaja/Rubocop.novaextension
Apr 2021 - Oct 2022
Contributions:4 releases, 9 commits, 8 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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