Matt Bilyeu

https://matthewbilyeu.com/blog
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Software engineer with 10 years of experience, focused on communication and simplicity.

Experience

Flexport

https://flexport.com
Senior Software Engineer
March 2021 - Present
  • Collaborate with other teams to architect systems around shipment execution and work management, enabling our next-generation freight forwarding app
  • Lead project to design and build backend Java Spring Boot service for shipment milestone management, which will help automate operations workflows

Flexport

https://flexport.com
Software Engineer II
July 2019 - March 2021
  • Led team of three engineers in refactoring rule-based system for assigning tasks to shipment operations specialists, powering assignment for tens of thousands of dynamic shipment records
  • Architected and built MVP of a network-isolated Ruby on Rails service for structured freight business procedures, enabling automation

Stitch (acquired by Talend)

https://stitchdata.com
Senior Software Engineer
February 2018 - July 2019
  • Technical lead of a multi-quarter exploratory project to serve enterprise users' advanced data orchestration needs
  • Architected and built a distributed scheduling service to manage triggering thousands of periodic Kubernetes jobs

Stitch

https://stitchdata.com
Software Engineer
August 2016 - February 2018
  • Designed and implemented a Clojure and React application to load records into customers' AWS S3 data lakes
  • Developed tap-mysql, a containerized database extraction tool for the open-source Singer.io platform, written in Python

RJMetrics

https://rjmetrics.com
Software Engineer
April 2014 - August 2016
  • Wrote a scalable publish-subscribe notification system in Clojure to alert customers about important updates to their accounts (~10k messages/min)
  • Contributed to the analytics dashboard app using AngularJS, HighCharts, PHP, and Redis

EWA

http://www.ewa-gsi.com
Software Engineer
July 2012 - April 2014
  • Maintained, extended, and tested real time radar control simulation systems written with C++ and C# in Linux and Windows environments
  • Designed and implemented UI for aircraft trajectory and digital signal processing display programs

Sunoco

https://www.sunoco.com
Technical Project Assistant
September 2010 - March 2011
  • Managed technical info for 4.6k retail gasoline outlets using Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Access
  • Automated a weekly four-hour manual task using Python

Electronic Ink

http://electronicink.com
Design Implementation Intern
September 2009 - March 2010
  • Learned and employed full stack web development like C# .NET, HTML, CSS, and PHP
  • Primarily assisted in developing a dynamic, 4.5k page public website for Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

Oracle - Primavera

https://www.oracle.com/applications/primavera
QA Analyst Intern
September 2008 - March 2009
  • Worked within a team of developers and QA engineers to identify and eliminate software defects for the company's project management product
  • Tested software products for defects using SilkTest and automation tests in the 4Test language

Education

Georgia Tech
Computer Science, M.S.
2017 - 2021
Drexel University
Computer Science, B.S.
2007 - 2012

Skills

Current
  • Modern web development (90% backend)
  • Java with Spring Boot
  • Ruby on Rails (typing via Sorbet)
  • gRPC
  • GraphQL
  • JavaScript ES6 (typing via Flow)
  • React
Previous
  • Clojure
  • AngularJS 1.X
  • C++
  • C# / .NET
  • Python