Matt Janssen
Munich, Germany

...Expertise................................................................................................................................................................................................

  • Comprehensive knowledge of project leadership, from requirements gathering and scoping to team management, implementation, testing, and support.
  • Diverse experience in leading development teams locally and abroad.
  • Excellence in growing environments with new ideas.

Core Proficiencies

Day-to-day Technologies

Other Expertise

...Education.................................................................................................................................................................................................

Luther College May 2004
Bachelor of Arts degree in Management Information Systems

...Experience................................................................................................................................................................................................

Lead Full-stack Engineer. 2018 - Present
Talentry GmbH (CleverConnect), Munich, Germany @ www.cleverconnect.com
  • Expanded an MVP into a scalable, enterprise-level SaaS solution.
  • Coordinated between engineering teams to define standards and interfaces.
  • Proposed solutions and alternatives to business and technical requirements.
  • Defined and prioritized technical debt topics.
  • Enjoyed mentoring junior- and mid-level engineers as the teams grew.
  • Contributed to a strong office culture, sharing a love for coffee and conversation.

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Senior Full-stack Engineer. 2016 - 2018
When I Work, Minneapolis, Minnesota @ www.wheniwork.com
  • Developed reusable internal libraries and SDKs. Expanded DRY practices.
  • Roadmapped the transition from legacy monolith code to microservices, while continuing to ship new features.
  • Worked with mobile and frontend teams to create API specs that are powerful, yet enjoyable to implement and consume.
  • Lead efforts to deploy PHP microservices using Kubernetes and GitLab CI.
  • Collaborated with product, UX, and design to quickly move ideas into reality.

Technologies:

Lead PHP Engineer. 2012 - 2016
The Nerdery, Minneapolis, Minnesota @ www.nerdery.com
  • Pioneered the development team's transition to a new PHP framework.
  • Developed and standardized best practices for project spin-ups, library usage, development environments and automated deployments.
  • Mentored teammates in estimating, scoping, developing and leadership.
  • Engineered scalable, HA environments for a high-traffic website with complex persistence layers.

Technologies:

Lead Magento Developer. 2009 - 2011
Luggage Pros, Minnetonka, Minnesota @ www.luggagepros.com
  • Harnessed Amazon EC2 to create horizontally-scaling warm backups for the Magento site. Dealt with MySQL scale-out replication and Magento's read-only database logic.
  • Using memcached object and APC opcode caches, optimized Magento to achieve 100-item list-page loads in under one second.
  • Developed a layered navigation module allowing for subcategories to exist under multiple primary categories. Integrated with the rewrite system to produce SEO-friendly URLs.
  • Created a new Magento SOAP API to better handle 12,000 product, customer, order and image data from an in-house Flex ERP system.
  • Designed an industry-leading HTML front-end for creating customized product. Translated on-screen JavaScript coordinate data into PHP::ImageMagick to produce print-ready images from any platform/browser @ www.myflytag.com

Technologies:

Gap Year, Volunteer Teaching. 2011 - 2012
Bukoba, Tanzania. And beyond.
  • Taught computer basics to middle and high school students. Lead adult classes on WordPress editing.
  • Established an Internet-facing WordPress server to host local websites.
  • Setup Internet connectivity in the classroom using Untangle firewall software.
  • Enjoyed a once (maybe twice) in-a-lifetime journey around the world.

Technologies:

Technology Analyst. 2007 - 2008
Papier D'Art English School, Osaka, Japan.
  • Advised on technology solutions for a start-up business. Taking into account budget and needs, recommended specific Adobe and Microsoft suites. Trained Japanese employees on the new software.
  • Mapped potential sales using a custom overlay for Google Maps API. Used jQuery's AJAX to connect user interactions to a MySQL backend.

Technologies:

Internet Streaming Project Manager. 2004
KWLC Radio, Decorah, Iowa.
  • Coordinated between business managers and the programming team. Conducted feasibility studies on various audio-streaming options. Drew up timeline and budget expectations for chosen design.
  • Directed Linux hardware and software engineers. Produced progress reports. Oversaw documentation. Used Perl scripting to parse server log files into HTML, displaying listener trends over time, including GEO IP lookup.
  • Organized load tests using both LAN and WAN connections. Monitored server and network loads using vmstat and Cacti. Located and fixed problematic firewall rules in an upstream router.

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...Activites................................................................................................................................................................................................

Open source development, non-profit consulting, theater performance, backcountry camping, armature photography, self-directed study.
And travel.