Hi, I'm Matt Bettinson.

I’m a Canadian software developer at Shopify. I like to write code and words, make music, take photos.

You can mostly find me on Github. Get in touch via email.

Education

BA - General Computing Queen’s University (2014-2017)

Web Software Engineer

Executed large scale refactor of client’s Ruby On Rails application to add support for french language translation.
Rapidly prototyped application to view DXF files for client. Application could manipulate DXF elements and export the manipulated canvas to JSON.
Lead development team of internal dashboard tool, mentoring intern developers and contributing to the codebase in Go and React. Deployed application on internal server with Docker.

Ruby on Rails developer specializing in secure agile full stack web application development.

Wrote conversion task to OCR PDF files stored in AWS and indexed them in Elasticsearch.
Maintained and extended web application used internally by Georgia State Lawyers for the coordination of legal cases and internal documents.
Assumed lead developer role to complete client effort using code reviews and agile methodologies to finalize project.
Implemented token expiration functionality on the open-sourced devise-2fa gem: github.com/williamatodd/devise-2fa

Refactored entire order alerts Rails model, allowing extendability and reducing complexity
Worked on maintenance task to backfill every order with a currency, aiding in decoupling selling and settling currency on the merchant’s side
Performed various front-end and back-end fixes to allow for multiple currencies in Shopify Payments.

Junior mobile developer specializing in C# Xamarin development
Worked on front facing component of taxi app that was accessible to illiterate drivers
Developed a brochure application to display PDF’s downloaded from their site for presentation using JSON, asynchronous web requests, and C#.
Wrote blog post on deploying to enterprise development

iOS and web intern, working on Firehose iOS chat app in Objective-C
Improved and refactored log-in user experience, notification views, and improved usability on web.
Fixed usability and performance bugs on backend of chat server

Deployed on a Digital Ocean server, written in Ruby on Rails, images served as static content from Nginx.
Features include user sign-up/authentication, image uploading, following of users, newsfeed of images from people you’re following.
Implemented background queueing system using Resque and Redis to create image thumbnails asynchronously without blocking the main thread in order to save bandwidth.
Utilizes carrot-lang, a template language I wrote to give users control of the layout of their personal page.

On app store, programmed in Swift, over 600 downloads.
Created to send picture messages over an SMS plan for free by encoding images into binary picture data that can be copied to the messages app.
- Source: https://github.com/bettinson/pic-text

Weekly meet up where Queen’s students get together and work on side projects, as well as discussing programming news and related topics to development.

Python, Swift, Ruby, Java