Matthew Beller, Developer in Santa Monica, CA, United States
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Matthew Beller

Verified Expert  in Engineering

Software Developer

Location
Santa Monica, CA, United States
Toptal Member Since
July 14, 2015

A computer scientist with a background in finance, Matt has developed software for tech and finance firms on many different platforms. He learns new technologies quickly and delivers quality code on time and on spec. Matt has strong communication skills and knows how to thrive both in small, agile teams as well as in large, compartmentalized corporations.

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Unix, Git

The most amazing...

...thing I've done is led the development of an accounting system that tracks Bitcoin payments.

Work Experience

Director of Financial Systems

2013 - 2015
GoCoin
  • Spearheaded development and administration of an accounting system for tracking Bitcoin payments.
  • Developed Ruby on Rails JSON REST APIs.
  • Modified the open source project 'bitcoin-ruby' to be cryptocurrency-agnostic and allow multiple concurrent instances.
  • Optimized SQL queries and caching systems to provide internal and user-facing analytics data.
  • Scaled and extended a double-entry accounting system to handle high concurrent loads and reporting requirements.
Technologies: Ruby on Rails (RoR)

Founder

2011 - 2013
Flash Family Foto
  • Built a Ruby on Rails website for users to schedule family photo shoots and view their photos.
  • Managed a pool of contract photographers who performed photo shoots.
  • Implemented jQuery and Ruby-based UX allowing photographers to upload 2GB+ batches of photos to Amazon S3.
  • Created scripts to automatically process, crop, and resize batches of digital photos.
  • Configured a Stripe payment system.
Technologies: Ruby on Rails (RoR)

Examiner

2004 - 2008
U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission
  • Developed software tools to analyze data provided by financial firms.
Technologies: VBScript, Microsoft Access

Information Systems Analyst

2004 - 2004
Federal Reserve Board of Governors
  • Assisted a mail server team in administering a PKI system among board employees.
  • Performed QA on internally developed Lotus Notes applications used in board operations.
  • Designed, drafted, and deployed an internal website providing support information and tutorials for an internal email system.
  • Provided mobile device user support to high profile board employees.
  • Sat in Alan Greenspan's chair one time.
Technologies: Perl, Lotus Notes

Toastr

https://github.com/drush/toastr
A Ruby gem that provides a caching mechanism that serves stale content and triggers a background job to recalculate it instead of standard caching behavior that blocks while performing the recalculation.

The GoCoin API

The GoCoin API allows merchants to accept cryptocurrency payments via simple requests, supported by a variety of plugins.

Languages

CoffeeScript, Haml, Ruby, SQL, VBScript, Perl, SCSS, Sass, C++

Frameworks

minitest, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Bootstrap

Libraries/APIs

REST APIs, Devise, Stripe

Tools

RSpec, Git, Adobe Photoshop, Lotus Notes, Microsoft Access

Paradigms

Agile Software Development, Plugin-Based Architecture

Platforms

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Heroku, Unix

Other

ActiveAdmin, Bitcoin, HTML Email

Storage

Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL

1999 - 2003

Bachelor's Degree in Finance

The Florida State University - Florida

1999 - 2003

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

The Florida State University - Florida

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