flyinghyrax.net

Matthew Seiler

Contact

  • he/him
  • Virginia, USA
  • contact@flyinghyrax.net
  • (202) 743-1276

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Skills & Strengths

  • functional, procedural, & object-oriented programming paradigms
  • familiarity with a broad spectrum of programming languages
  • full-stack & multi-platform development experience
  • attribute-driven software system architecture
  • software refactoring & debugging
  • written & visual documentation
  • passion for learning & teaching

Experience

Senior Software Engineer

Ozmo, Inc.
Remote
March 2024 - present

Roles & Responsibilities

Software Engineer

Verite Group, Inc.
Dulles, VA
May 2019 - March 2024

Roles & Responsibilities

  • Designed & implemented web APIs, database schemas, client applications, & deployment processes for client/server applications
  • Maintained & upgraded backend APIs and React UIs of existing web applications
  • Technical lead for a 3-person team that designed & implemented a prototype distributed system for managing remote mobile devices
  • Created Python native extension module in C++ to parallelize compute-intensive tasks in a Django web service, improving task runtime by more than 12x
  • Implemented containerized CI pipelines for combined delivery a multi-repo project
  • Created Ansible playbooks to automate repeated deployments to separate environments with varying configuration
  • Configured & managed remote Linux servers & network infrastructure
  • Created Android platform development utilities & applications
  • Authored & presented a 3-part series on the Git DVCS, & created set of interactive "capture the flag"-style Git puzzles with automated solution checking

Graduate Teaching Assistant

East Tennessee State University
Johnson City, TN
August 2017 - May 2019

Roles & Responsibilities

  • Instructor for 3 sections of undergraduate "Using Information Technology" courses, including lecture delivery, grading, & office hours (3 semesters)
  • Teaching assistant for a Java II programming course including grading programming assignments, assisting students in labs, & contributing lectures (1 semester)

IT Intern

Eastman Chemical Company
Kingsport, TN
May 2018 - August 2018

Roles & Responsibilities

  • Contributed to ongoing IT infrastructure projects on the Global Windows Architecture team
  • Created custom PowerShell cmdlets to automate data collection from servers
  • Created C# program to partially automate Azure Active Directory migration

Software Engineer

Fitnet Corporation
Blacksburg, VA
Mar 2016 - Sep 2016

Roles & Responsibilities

  • Designed & implemented the Fitnet iOS applications written in Swift
  • Continually adapted to changing requirements an in agile environment

Software Development Intern

Fitnet Corporation
Blacksburg, VA
May 2014 - August 2014; May 2015 - December 2015

Roles & Responsibilities

  • Ported components of an iOS application to Android
  • Migrated custom Android build tasks from Ant to Gradle
  • Integrated screen-casting capability in mobile apps using Google Cast framework

Peer Instructor / Tutor

Radford University Dept. of Information Technology
Radford, VA
January 2014 - May 2014; August 2014 - May 2015

Roles & Responsibilities

  • Assisted students with Java II programming assignments during lab sessions
  • Graded homework & assessments for a Discrete Mathematics course

Education

M.S. Applied Computer Science

East Tennessee State University
Johnson City, TN, USA
May 2019
4.0 GPA

Highlights

  • Led 5-person team of graduate students developing a Django application for visualizing geographic population health data
  • Areas of interest included technical writing, software project management, machine learning techniques, & network programming
  • Department of Computing "Oustanding Graduate Student" 2018-2019

B.S. Computer Science and Technology

Radford University
Radford, VA, USA
December 2015
4.0 GPA

Highlights

  • Areas of interest included relational database design, algorithms, & language theory
  • Computer Science and Technology Dean's Scholar 2015
  • ETS Major Field Test, Computer Science 188/200, November 2015
  • Upsilon Pi Upsilon honor society

AAS General Studies - computer science spec.

New River Community College
Dublin, VA, USA
May 2013
3.924 GPA

Highlights

  • General Studies - computer science spec. "Outstanding Student" 2013
  • Phi Theta Kappa honor society