nanvenomous / optic

A simplified, generic, entity based web library for golang that's drop in compatible with net/http

Matthew Garelli
[email protected]
Austin, TX

I'm a software developer with a proven history of:

• bringing small business to life with Go (Golang), HTML, HTMX, tailwindcss & vanilla Typescript
• building teams and also being a great teammate by contributing clean code, driving code reviews and controlling entropy through refactors
• cloud development (aws, gcp), linux systems, and contanerization (docker & kubernetes)
• leveraging FOSS to build coherent tech stacks & modestly contributing to open source
• building awesome web & mobile applications (SSR Golang & HTMX, React, React-Native, Django)
• maintaining fault tolerant data scraping tools, ingestion pipelines, and visualization portals in Go and Python

Experience

CTO	Clauseout	Remote	4/23-Present

• Assembling a team (currently ~8) to demystify legislation, and bring democracy direct to consumers
• Running a team of 3 highly motivated developers to build a modern PWA interface into your government
  • A secure voting system in Go and HTMX with a pleasant UX
  • Data pipelines in Go to scrape, request, and persist political data from a variety of sources
  • A web push notification system to alert user's when the government is on the move
  • A full AWS and mongodb atlas cloud stack including:
    • user authentication
    • authorization access
  • A secure and private OIDC system using Go and kratos for users to share demographic info with their representatives
  • A coherent web component library in Go, HTMX, tailwindcss, templ
• Participated in Chicago Booth accelerator
• Secured an investment from Antler the worlds larges day 0 investor, and additional private investment

Creator	Devsquadron	Remote	(3 mo) 1-4/23

• Created end-to-end, FOSS project management tool to enable technical leaders to manager their own projects
• Created a user facing systems application / command line interface in Go to interact with the product queue
• Created a REST-ful service in Go using mongo-go-driver and deployed to AWS EC2
• Participated in NYU STERN startup bootcamp certificate

Software Developer II	Amazon Fulfillment Tech	Remote / Austin, TX	(10 mo) 3/22-1/23

• In six months I worked on a fast paced team to build and deploy waste management software to fulfillment centers around the world
• Implemented several large features including Item entry, shipment full CI, design proposal for vendor de-duplication
• Won Austin wide hackathon with an MVP to allow users to go from a picture of a product or label to an identification number (team of 3)
• Built and deployed a developer facing meta-repository tool called rio to make working with multiple sub-repositories a breeze

Software Developer, AI, ML, Data	General Motors	Remote / Austin, TX	(4 mo) 11/21-3/22

• Managed large-scale data pipelines in python via Apache Airflow
• key contributor data migration and ingestion to ultracruise after Cruise merger
• Write, review, and Merge high quality code in python

Mobile Developer	General Motors	Remote / Detroit, MI	(~2.7 years) 3/19-11/21

• Developed features including Digital Key & Remote Key-fob for GM phone apps (MyCheverolet, MyCadillac, etc), providing a positive user experience for ~5 million users
  • Scaled stateful applications with balanced reduction/selection logic to produce maintainable, clean code
  • Solely redesigned & integration tested user state machine to prepare for launch of keyless entry
    • Bridged between Android <-> React-Native <-> iOS to leverage React-Native & latest native technologies
    • Demonstrated best practices in REST APIs consumption, object oriented design, & executing refactors
    • Contributed organically to services & UI libraries, utilized across GM phone & web applications
• Drove efficiency & quality through automation, removing barriers for 80+ engineers
  • Proposed & created processor (Django) for BlackDuck security scans which reduced release time by 20%
  • Migrated & maintained production Jenkins pipelines for validation, PR, & security scans
• Mentored 3 new employees, including environment setup, tech stack overview, & contribution best practices
• Onboarded new team to GM-flavored React-Native framework & reviewed the team's early PRs

Electrification Analyst	General Motors	Warren, MI	(~4 mo) 10/18-3/19

• Modeled temperature response from heat load inputs, reducing expensive & timely battery pack testing
  • Worked with R&D to create & tune MIMO differential systems modeling application
• Developed group project management web application (Django), providing accessible project statuses
  • Migrated from Excel to django SQLite database and built UI (HTML, CSS, Django Templates & Forms)
• Administered corporate internal Ubuntu virtual machine with package for proxy authentication

Battery Systems Lead Integration Engineer	General Motors	Warren, MI	(~8 mo) 10/17-6/18

• Software integration engineer for wireless battery monitoring system, saving cost on every GM electric vehicle
  • Implemented tool for statistical/mathematical analysis of safety-critical high voltage monitoring systems
  • Processed large datasets sampled every 100ms, to correlate external factors with system integrity
  • Set up simple CI/CD for a team of 3 with PR hooks, builds, & unit tests
• Submitted and defended patent for system monitoring communication devices

Other Experience at GM

Education

Stanford University	Stanford, CA	9/12-12/16

• Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering
• Projects included Bio-inspired design, Robotics analysis, and a Human Research Study
• Electives included Programming Abstractions, Micro/Nano Electro Mechanical Systems, Thermal Combustion Modeling, Experimental Stress Analysis
• NCAA Division I Scholarship Athlete

Skills

Area	Technologies
Backend	I have built several concurrent services in Go with gin and net/http ent SQL ORM and mongodb driver, Django
Data	I build fast, generic, and memory safe NoSQL data layers in Go with mongodb driver, SQL experience is mainly ORM's such as ent in Go & Django in python
Mobile Frontend	Typescript, React Native & Redux, Objective C, Swift, iOS, Java, Kotlin, Android
Statistical Analysis	numpy, pandas, matplotlib, scikit-learn, regression, model-tuning
Mechanical	Design, SolidWorks, stress/strain, control systems, fluid analysis, thermodynamics
System / Deployment	Linux, Docker, AWS EC2, git, Jenkins