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Matt Rogers

Senior Software Engineer

Dallas, Texas, United States22 yrs 8 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led transformation of CI infrastructure at GitHub.
  • Expert in developer observability and scalable platform design.
  • Mentor and team-builder with nearly two decades of experience.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Software Engineer with extensive experience in SaaS and Healthcare industries.

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LinuxAgile MethodologiesC++QtPostgreSQLSoftware DevelopmentJavaSoftware EngineeringRuby on RailsGitBashSoftware DesignOperating SystemsTestingRuby

About

Senior+ software engineer with nearly two decades of experience leading impactful backend initiatives across high-growth companies and global platforms. Currently at GitHub, I’ve spearheaded the transformation of internal CI infrastructure - from Jenkins, to a custom solution, and ultimately to GitHub Actions - driving measurable improvements in reliability, test suite flakiness, and build duration along the way. I am known for technical leadership in developer observability, Sorbet adoption, and scalable platform design, I’ve consistently served as a mentor, team-builder, and system-level thinker.

Experience

22 yrs 8 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 9 mos
Average Tenure
8 yrs 4 mos
Current Experience

Github

2 roles

Staff Software Engineer

Promoted

Mar 2023Present · 3 yrs 2 mos · Remote

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2018Mar 2023 · 5 yrs 2 mos · Remote

Teladoc

Senior Developer

Apr 2016Dec 2017 · 1 yr 8 mos · Lewisville, Texas

  • Lead developer on the project responsible for integrating Teladoc's licensed solution for health care systems with Teladoc's core platform in order to provide a larger pool of providers for the health care systems to leverage. Lead the Client Implementations team, which is responsible for ensuring that SSOs, Landing Pages, and Real Time Eligibility systems are set up and ready to go for each new client Teladoc brings on.

Livingsocial

Sr. Software Engineer

Aug 2015Mar 2016 · 7 mos · Remote

  • I worked within the Core Services group at LivingSocial maintaining the software systems that make up the core of LivingSocial's daily deals operation, including participating in the 24/7 on-call rotation. These systems included the user account and login systems, inventory services for locating deals in the system. This group also provided assistance to other teams within LivingSocial to design and develop APIs as well as provide written design guidelines for how teams at LivingSocial should write APIs in general.

Active network

Senior Manager, Software Development, Active.com

Dec 2014Jul 2015 · 7 mos · Dallas, TX

  • Lead the team responsible for development of various consumer products for ACTIVENetwork, such as Active.com, ACTIVEKids, and ACTIVE Results. Provide technical direction, guidance, and mentorship to developers on the team to improve code quality within a legacy codebase. Work with the Product Owner and Project Managers to groom stories, coordinate work, and shepherd dependent projects.

Hireology

Lead Engineer

Sep 2013Nov 2014 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Hired as the second engineer to work on Hireology’s software platform which helps distributed enterprises make better hires. Lead a restructuring of the interview guide content storage system in order to make it more flexible and adaptable to many different document types. Implemented chat room driven continuous integration and automated deployment tools. Helped lead the efforts to grow the Engineering team. Lead the migration of the application from DataMapper to ActiveRecord.

Mcafee

Sr. Software Engineer, Messaging Security Research

Oct 2012Sep 2013 · 11 mos

  • Work with a small team of highly skilled engineers specializing in Internal Tool development in order to improve the efficiency of Security Researcher time and effort when creating content for McAfee products.

Pizza hut

Sr. Applications Technologist

Jun 2007Oct 2012 · 5 yrs 4 mos · Plano, TX

  • Senior Software Developer on the Restaurant Information Systems (RIS) team. Supported the conversion of the OS that runs the Back of House (BOH) and Point of Sale (POS) systems from SCO Unix to Linux in 2007. Contributed to the design and implementation of several major features in the POS system. Lead the team responsible for revamping the restaurant inventory system from Sept. 2010 to April 2011. Coached/mentored team members on technologies new to the team such as Qt, SQL, PostgreSQL and various Agile methodologies.

Linspire

Consultant

Jun 2005Jun 2006 · 1 yr

  • Open source software development on the KDE desktop. My work included enhancements to the KDE Instant Messaging client, Kopete, specifically for Linspire's Desktop Linux products.
  • (Linspire has since been acquired by Xandros Corporation.)

Efw

Software Engineer

May 2005May 2007 · 2 yrs

  • Enhanced and maintained the web based in-house ticket tracking system. Developed a multi-threaded test system to certify an Operational Flight Program. Developed a protocol translation proof of concept to move data from a UDP socket to a CAN bus port. Developed an proof of concept to play audio on an embedded system based on incoming UDP data from a commercial flight simulator

Inginix systems corporation

Software Test Engineer

Jun 2004Dec 2004 · 6 mos

Kde

Developer

May 2003Sep 2011 · 8 yrs 4 mos

  • Software Developer on the KDE Instant Messenger project called Kopete. Implemented features for the Yahoo! Instant Messenger, AOL Instant Messenger, and ICQ protocols. Helped the team guide the development of the project until 2009.
  • Also lead developer/maintainer of the KDevelop IDE project from 2005 to 2008. Worked on improving CMake and GNU Autotools support to the project.

Education

University of North Texas

BS — Computer Science

Sep 1999Dec 2003

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