About

Matt Groot is a highly skilled software engineer with over 10 years of experience in the field. He started his career dabbling in embedded micro-systems during his college years before moving into web application quality engineering after graduating. Since then, he has become a full-time web developer with a focus on backend data and infrastructure automation. Currently working as a QA Tester at Twisted Pixel Games, Matt is responsible for identifying bugs in gameplay, interface, and content. He also maintains and cleans the bug database, supplementing tickets with additional information and purging duplicates, and verifies that issues are successfully resolved. In the past, Matt has worked as a Software Developer at SchoolAdmin, where he implemented new features for their Ruby on Rails web application. He Dockerized standalone microservices using Python Flask, transformed and migrated their MySQL and MongoDB data, integrated their products with external API services, profiled web applications to uncover performance issues, created a framework for running data difference tests, automated manual regression tests using Capybara/Selenium, and built and maintained several internal and customer-facing support tools. As a Senior Software Engineer at OwnLocal, Matt architected a Serverless Lambda REST API using S3 and ElasticSearch as data stores, including User Authentication, Authorization, and change log tracking. He streamlined their automated Build and Deployment process using CircleCI (including production and development environments), integrated with Rollbar for automated error tracking and analytics, containerized and orchestrated their legacy web applications with Docker/Rancher, and led efforts to raise overall coverage, quality, and efficiency of their unit tests, integration tests, and end-to-end tests using Jest, RSpec, Nightwatch, Capybara. He also maintained existing legacy Ruby on Rails web applications. Matt holds a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. His technical skills include software engineering, web development, backend development, infrastructure automation, Ruby, Docker, Elastic Search, and integration. With his extensive experience and expertise, Matt is a valuable asset to any organization.