Matthew T. Adams
Senior Software Architect
South Austin, TX Area • jobs@matthewadams.me
tl;dr
If you just want my resume, it’s right here.
About
- Coding since 1982, getting paid for it since 1989
- Next career step:
- happily continuing to code,
- VP of Development or CTO of small- to medium-sized business, or
- entrepreneur
- Primarily backend development, but enjoying rekindled interest in front end
- Recently called “grey beard” (meaning one of those older programmers that sits in the back row of huge keynote conference speeches shaking his head & thinking, “We had this stuff nailed in the 1980s with LISP.”), which I consider a complement.
- Open source committer: Yaktor, Spring Data Cassandra, JDO, others
- I occasionally adult well
- Prefer companies that hire without whiteboards
- Used to know the Pac Man patterns
- I blog (rarely): blog.matthewadams.me, medium.com, SciSpike Blog
- I gave a talk on Spring Data Cassandra at SpringOne 2014 that’s still around (as long as the link lasts)
- Former good volleyball player
- Semi-OK golfer
- Former & future musician
- GitHub profile: https://github.com/matthewadams
- StackOverflow story: https://stackoverflow.com/story/matthewadams
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/matthewadams
- Twitter: @matthewadams12
- Highly recommended by self
- Favorite word:
monosyllabic
- Least favorite word:
bunion
(moist
doesn’t bother me at all)
- Favorite numbers: 12, -1.5,
NaN
