Matt Raible

Current

Construction Worker and Job Seeker at The Cabin

Past

UI Consultant and Architect at Evite
Lead UI Architect at LinkedIn
Founder and Lead Developer at AppFuse

Roller/Struts 2 Committer at Apache Software Foundation
President and CEO at Raible Designs, Inc.
Web Framework Consultant at LinkedIn
Open Source Practice Leader at Virtuas Open Source Solutions
Java Author at SourceBeat and Apress
Director of Web Development at eDeploy, Inc.
UI Architect at Douglas County
Webmaster at CoBank / IBM Global Services

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Education

University of Denver

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Industry

Computer Software

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Matt Raible’s Summary

Matt Raible has been building web applications for most of his adult life. He started tinkering with the web before Netscape 1.0 was even released. For the last 11 years, Matt has helped companies adopt open source technologies (Spring, Hibernate, Apache, Struts, Tapestry, Grails) and use them effectively. Matt has been a speaker at many conferences worldwide, including ApacheCon, JavaZone, Colorado Software Summit, No Fluff Just Stuff, and a host of others.

Matt is an author (Spring Live and Pro JSP), and an active "kick-ass technology" evangelist on http://raibledesigns.com. He is the founder of AppFuse, a project which allows you to get started quickly with Java frameworks, as well as a committer on the Apache Roller and Apache Struts projects.

Matt Raible’s Specialties:

Java/Java EE, Spring, Hibernate, Struts, Spring MVC, JSF, Tapestry, Ajax (Prototype, Scriptaculous, DWR), AppFuse, Ant, Maven, Tomcat, Jetty, Appcelerator, GWT, Flex, Rails and Grails.

Also known to spew technical acronyms fast enough to make people wonder what he's talking about.

Matt Raible’s Experience

Construction Worker and Job Seeker

The Cabin

(Think Tanks industry)

June 2009 — Present (2 months)

Spending the month of July at my family's cabin in Montana. Helping my dad build his retirement cabin.
UI Consultant and Architect

Evite

(Public Company; IACI; Internet industry)

December 2008 — June 2009 (7 months)

In January, we started by evaluating Ajax Frameworks and came to the conclusion that GWT was right for our team. After we chose the UI framework, other team members chose Grails and memcached to develop scalable RESTful services. The architecture we implemented involves using GWT's RequestBuilder to talk to Grails' services, which cache almost all their JSON output in memcached.

To see an example of a feature we developed with GWT, see Evite's Design Gallery at http://www.evite.com/party/invitations. I personally worked on this feature and very much enjoyed becoming a GWT aficionado in the process. GWT's zero-turnaround feature made doing pure client-side work a lot of fun. It's definitely something I'd like to continuing doing at my next gig.
Lead UI Architect

LinkedIn

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)

February 2008 — November 2008 (10 months)

Led the LinkedIn UI Frameworks Team out of Denver, Colorado. Was responsible for a team of hard-working engineers with a passion for success. We acted as an internal open source group responsible for documenting, developing and supporting web frameworks used at LinkedIn. While we didn't get to do as much web framework developing as we would've liked, we did deliver some key functionality into the production site. Projects included web site optimization, service/session optimization and many bug fixes and enhancements to the current web framework.
Founder and Lead Developer

AppFuse

(Computer Software industry)

April 2003 — May 2008 (5 years 2 months)

Founder of the AppFuse Open Source project. AppFuse is allows you to get started quickly with Java frameworks, including Maven, Spring, Hibernate, Struts 2, Spring MVC, JSF and Tapestry.
Roller/Struts 2 Committer

Apache Software Foundation

(Non-Profit; Computer Software industry)

August 2002 — May 2008 (5 years 10 months)
President and CEO

Raible Designs, Inc.

(Computer Software industry)

May 1998 — May 2008 (10 years 1 month)

Owned and operated a Java EE Consulting company. Roles on projects include:

• Web Framework Consultant, LinkedIn, Mountain View, CA. July 2007 – May 2008.

• Java Open Source Consultant, eInvite.com, West Boylston, MA. February 2007 – May 2007.

• Architect and Senior Developer, Xcel Energy, Denver, CO. January 2005 – June 2005.

• Security Consultant, Oak Grove Systems, Calabasas, CA. October 2004 – January 2005.

• Development Engineer, Open Logic, Inc., Highlands Ranch, CO. June - September 2004.

• Architect, Developer and Trainer, Adams County Government, Brighton, CO. November 2003 - June 2004.

• Lead Developer, ResortQuest, Lafayette, CO. August - November 2003.

• Architect and Lead Developer, Comcast Media Center, Englewood, CO. December 2002 - August 2003.

• Architect and Lead Developer, OnPoint Digital, Inc., Savannah, GA. January - December 2002.

• UI Developer, Douglas County Government, Castle Rock, CO. May - October 2001.
Web Framework Consultant

LinkedIn

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)

July 2007 — February 2008 (8 months)

Performed an in-depth analysis of LinkedIn's proprietary Java web framework and investigated migrating to an open source web framework. Developed prototypes and Struts 2 and Spring MVC. Performed an analysis of Rails vs. Grails and helped develop the widgets on the new Homepage.
Open Source Practice Leader

Virtuas Open Source Solutions

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

June 2005 — January 2007 (1 year 8 months)

Provided Open Source consulting, development and training around the Spring Framework, Hibernate, Web Frameworks, and development practices.
Java Author

SourceBeat and Apress

(Computer Software industry)

November 2002 — January 2007 (4 years 3 months)

Spring Live, SourceBeat. Authored constantly updated (dynamic) book on the Spring Framework.

Professional JSP 2.0, Wrox Press. Wrote chapters on Advanced Struts with XDoclet and Web Application Security.
Director of Web Development

eDeploy, Inc.

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Networking industry)

April 1999 — April 2001 (2 years 1 month)

Java, Graphics Design, HTML, and JavaScript development for Deployment Services Automation web site.

Software used: iPlanet Application Server, BEA WebLogic, Fireworks, Photoshop, Homesite, Dreamweaver UltraDev, NT Server, Oracle, iPlanet Application Builder, Windows 2000, Microsoft FrontPage, Macromedia Flash, Netscape Directory Server.
UI Architect

Douglas County

(Computer Software industry)

2001 — 2001 (less than a year)
Webmaster

CoBank / IBM Global Services

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Banking industry)

May 1998 — April 1999 (1 year)

Designed secure Internet area for Board of Director's only access.

Designed web-based application to perform dynamic reporting from accounting database.

Technologies used: VBScript, JavaScript, HTML, HTML Templates, Spider-Man Application

Planned, designed, and coordinated CoBank's Intranet implementation.

Matt Raible’s Education

University of Denver

Triple Major , Russian, International Business and Finance - Minor in History , 1992 — 1997

Outstanding Junior Man - University of Denver (94-95).
Outstanding Senior Man - Chi Phi Fraternity (96-97).

Activities and Societies:

Study Abroad: Russian Language/Internship Program, U of A Russian Institute-Moscow. Intensive Russian Program, Moscow State University.
University of Denver Community: Events Coordinator, Russian Student Union. Vice President, Golden Key National Honor Society.
Chi Phi Fraternity, Mu Zeta Chapter: Leadership Program Administrator / Social Planner. Scholarship Chairman. Vice President. Leadership Training, Memphis State University.

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Matt Raible’s Interests:

Being a good father, being happy, quality of life, mountain biking, scuba diving, hiking/backpacking, basketball, restoring classic Volkswagens, Broncos/Nuggets/Rockies games, traveling the world, studying new technologies, and good beer.