Matthew Schulze

About Matthew Schulze

Driven and focused engineer with a passion for software excellence and a proven track record in building maintainable software using the latest development technologies, languages, and best practices. Well-versed in evaluating and implementing software through extensive planning, agile scrum practices, and test-driven development. Equipped with solid communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills to coordinate and maintain healthy relationships with leadership, engineers, and product owners. Willing to jump in and learn whatever is needed in a fast-paced environment to help make a small team more functional while wearing multiple hats.

Experience

1. Software Engineer

   Healthaware

   Apr 2022 — Present · Denver, CO, US

   Lead developer and subject matter expert for an automated text messaging platform that is delivering more than 18 million text messages per year and growing. Subject matter expert on multiple legacy and green field PHP applications with AngularJS frontends. Full stack development from data models in MariaDB through the PHP application stack with PDO and template rendering engine, through to custom frontend legacy Angular JS applications. Responsible for calculating project failure points and recommending solutions before production systems break down. Developing a next-generation web application in Ruby on Rails to replace an existing legacy PHP application.· Upgrade multiple applications from PHP 7.4 to PHP 8.1· Meaningful separation of unit, functional, regression, and performance testing within testing architecture.· Object-oriented PHP utilizing PSR-7 requests.· Queue system development, maintenance, testing, and documentation using PHP 8.1 and RabbitMQ.· Database management, development, and architecture with Phing and Liquibase.· Development of custom REST APIs using SlimPHP 3.0 / 4.0.· Maintaining custom AngularJS 1.6 frontend applications. · Complex asset compilation pipelines using GulpJS.· PHP Dependency management using Composer.· Development with raw SQL queries utilizing PDO.· Utilize best practices for software development including TDD, unit testing automation, functional testing automation, code linting, and code style enforcement.· Deployment management using various CI/CD Jenkins pipelines.· Separation of concerns via a PHP microservices architecture. · Maintaining systems for delivering text messages via the Twilio SDK.· Maintenance and support of Python ETL pipeline using Pandas, Numpy, and Python 3.10.· Development of greenfield Rails applications using Ruby, Postgress, HAML, Stimulus, and SASS

Education

• University of Colorado at Denver

  Bachelor of Science - BS