Matt Husby

Code Wrangler at Automattic

Location: Greater Milwaukee Area
Industry: Computer Software

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Matt Husby's Overview

Current

Code Wrangler at Automattic
Founder at Uncouth Software

Past

Developer at GroupCard
Avionics Technician at USAF
Assistant network administrator at UW-Milwaukee

Education

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
MHS

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Connections

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Developer and hacker that loves to dive in the deep end and get things done. My time at GroupCard has taken me all over the map, everything from email deliverability to building a custom MVC framework for white label applications. I am comfortable anywhere in the stack but like to focus on backend development (mostly php).

Specialties

Php, Mysql, Css, Javascript, Linux servers, Developing REST API's, Facebook, Twitter, Email Deliverability, Objective-c

Code Wrangler

Automattic

Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry

April 2012 – Present (2 months) Milwaukee, WI

Founder

Uncouth Software

Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry

January 2006 – Present (6 years 5 months)

Uncouth Software is the company that I have used to release a couple iPhone and OSX Applications

Developer

GroupCard

Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry

May 2008 – April 2012 (4 years) Milwaukee, WI

Responsibilities
* Develop and launch products on social networking and SaaS sites, such as Facebook, Salesforce, and Ning
* Develop the GroupCard Enterprise application based inside of Salesforce.com using the GroupCard api.
* Leverage emerging open source products to increase performance
* Scaling our web stack both vertically and horizontally
* Develop and document a highly flexible API to allow 3rd party developers to integrate using Oauth and REST
* Through close collaboration as launch partners, help many well-known partners develop new APIs, including Amazon GiftCards, Amazon FPS, Facebook Credits, PayPal, PayPal X, Ning, and Blackhawk Network
* Develop and launch a corporate version of GroupCard that supports batch processing allowing partners to send out customized e-cards to all of their clients
* Primary developer in a white label e-gift card platform for brands

Experience
* Primarily: PHP, mysql, css, javascript (mostly Jquery), Email deliverability, Administration of *nix servers, PCI-DSS, Large data sets and scaling up systems to handle, Rest API development, Cross-browser compatibility, and Social development (Using the social graph to grow the target market)
* Secondary: Ruby on Rails, Objective-C (and Cocoa), Erlang

Accomplishments
* Won a $250,000 grant through fbFund 2008 (fbFund is a competitive grant, funded by Facebook, Accel Vetures, and Founders Fund)
* Won the PayPal X pre-release prize for (alpha) platform developers
* Worked next to the Amazon Gift Card API development team as an alpha tester to resolve bugs and improve documentation.
* Invited to participate in fbFund REV 2009, an incubator program hosted by Facebook and Funders Fund.
* Acquired by InComm in April 2010