matthewadams.github.io

Matthew T. Adams

If you just want my resume, it’s right here.

Highly recommended by self
Coding since 1982, getting paid for it since 1989
Next career step:
- happily continuing to code as senior individual contributor,
- 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 gave a talk on Spring Data Cassandra at SpringOne 2014 the video of which 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 until they remove that service
LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/matthewadams
Twitter: @matthewadams12
Favorite word: monosyllabic
Least favorite word: bunion (moist doesn’t bother me at all)
Favorite numbers:
- 12
- $\sqrt{-1}$
- -0
- NaN

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