mattpatt(1)

Name

Matthew Patterson (he/him) - A senior software engineer in Chicago

Synopsis

Senior Software Engineer at Stripe
Experienced with Ruby, PHP, and other languages
B.S.B.A. in Accounting from the University of Central Florida
Hobbies include fitness, travel, skiing, and hiking

Contents

Work Experience
Projects
Causes I Support
Contact Me
See Also

Work Experience Top

Stripe 2022 to present
Senior Software Engineer
GitHub 2017 to 2021
Senior Software Engineer
- Led development of and built a foundation for usage-based billing, including:
  - Developed a proof-of-concept implementation for GitHub Actions, which was then implemented and extended for GitHub Packages
  - Proactively identified scaling concerns and proposed mitigations as usage-based billing grew exponentially
  - Designed and led development of an independent service for storing, rating, aggregating, and submitting usage events for invoicing
  - Converted batch processes to Kafka streams, enabling GitHub to process hundreds of millions of usage events per month
  - Worked with partner teams to design a Twirp API for storing and retrieving usage data
- Helped create a five-year technical plan for the billing platform
- Fostered a culture within the billing team that values observability, self-healing systems, and tooling to enable safe manual intervention when needed
- Developed integrations with Zuora for subscription billing and with Stripe for GitHub Sponsors transfers and payouts
- Collaborated with other engineering teams to provide guidance on how to implement billing-related features and to solicit feedback on the billing platform
- Developed tooling to help standardize Ruby and Rails application development across the company
- Technologies: Ruby on Rails, MySQL, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes
Braintree Payments 2014 to 2017
Engineering Manager, Technical Lead
- Engineering Manager for disputes product; notable accomplishments include:
  - Integrations with Australian, European acquiring banks, including strategies for dealing with inconsistent and error-prone data
  - Merchant API for managing disputes
  - Creation of an independent service to encapsulate dispute functionality
  - Upgraded integrations with existing acquiring banks
- Managed a team of 8 software engineers, from interns to senior engineers
- Provided feedback and coaching for team members
- Worked with product management to define a roadmap to deliver merchant and technical value simultaneously
- Organized a two-day internal, multi-office conference for Braintree and Venmo product and engineering teams
- Technologies: Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Puppet, Terraform, Docker, AWS
BookIt.com 2012 to 2014
Software Developer, Team Lead, Scrum Master
- Lead a team of 9 developers and software testers
- Implemented multiple payment platforms and ensured security of PCI cardholder data
- Developed double-entry ledger for revenue reporting
- Developed rules-based cancellation and refund system
- Added internationalization and multi-currency support
- Implemented Jenkins for continuous integration
- Started and faciliated an employee-driven training and knowledge sharing program
- Technologies: PHP, Symfony, Doctrine, MySQL, JavaScript, ActiveMQ

Projects Top

My open source projects:

dashboard My attempt at a heads-up display for my home
dotfiles My dotfiles for Vim, Tmux, Zsh, etc.
howard Ruby library for interacting with the CTA Train Tracker API
mattpatt.io You're looking at it

Cool projects that I have contributed to:

Finance::Quote Perl module for getting stock and mutual fund quotes
Scientist Ruby library for carefully refactoring critical paths
ruby-trello Ruby library for interacting with the Trello API
wicked_pdf Ruby library for generating PDF files from HTML

Causes I Support Top

Contact Me Top

Email: matthew.s.patterson@gmail.com