Matt Eddy
Work Experience
Solo Founder
Blueberry
Dec 2023 - Present
Founded developer tools SaSS startup focused on interactive application customization - getblueberry.io
Grew company from initial idea to profitability within six months.
Defined company vision, handled all business development and sales, and created marketing strategy
Owned all aspects of product development, architecture and technical implementation
Designed highly-scalable and cost-efficient architecture, leveraging edge compute and edge caching to minimize latency and meet performance target
Created refined, intuitive developer experience and lightweight, production-grade client libraries for simple application integration
Software Engineer
Senior Staff Software Engineer
Outreach
February 2018 - Dec 2023
Promoted three times during tenure
Led team of 4 in complete overhaul of email syncing and storage:
Architected constellation of Go services responsible for storage of 7 billion emails and 1.2 Petabytes of data
Managed outside stakeholders, created timelines, and was the main point of contact for upper management
Led team of 3 upgrading 550k line Rails codebase from Ruby 2.6.3 to Ruby 2.7.5 and then Ruby 3.1.3. Led the same team through upgrading Rails from 5.2.6 to 6.1.5
Led a multiteam live migration off of chef based Kafka clusters to Amazon managed Kafka clusters
Led a migration from chef based RabbitMQ cluster to kubernetes operated RabbitMQ cluster and modernized RabbitMQ usage
Led MySQL optimization efforts, reducing writer usage by 31% and reducing server p90 latency across the board by 30ms by creating novel performance tooling.
Automated hotfix process into a single Go CLI command, decreasing mean time to incident recovery
Built, maintained, and deployed many features in Go, Ruby, and Javascript
Software Engineer
Zesty
October 2015 - October 2017
Built, maintained, and deployed features in Ruby and Javascript
Rewrote business critical accounting and worker scheduling systems
Designed and deployed containerized monitoring stack
Migrated background processing to a more efficient debuggable platform
Created internal code review and tech-support processes
Software Engineer
Foraker Labs
April 2014 - June 2015
Built, maintained, and deployed features in Ruby and Javascript
Communicated directly with clients and demoed new features
Gathered requirements and wrote/estimated user stories
Helped write ETL tools to migrate legacy systems to new data models