Matt Swanson
Chief Technology Officer at Arrows
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Swanson is Chief Technology Officer based in Indianapolis with a decade of experience building product-focused web applications. A product engineer who prizes lightweight processes, good design, and “boring” maintainable code, he ships full-stack Rails apps with Tailwind, Stimulus, and Hotwire. At Arrows he leads the product and engineering effort to streamline onboarding, sales, and customer success via HubSpot-connected, customer-facing plans, after a stretch leading product teams at SEP. He’s an active open-source contributor to the Rails core—improving ActionText, adding an ActiveSupport quarter helper, and enhancing mailer previews—bringing framework-level insights back into product development. That blend of hands-on coding, product thinking, and pragmatic leadership helps teams ship often while keeping complexity manageable.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, With Distinction, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, With Distinction at Purdue University
Github Skills (11)
application-framework10
activerecord10
app-framework10
ruby-rails10
web-framework10
rails510
rails10
web-frameworks10
ruby10
testing9
html7
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
rails/rails
Oct 2021 - Dec 2022
Ruby on Rails
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 3 commits, 9 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily contributed to the Rails framework by improving ActionText's plain text output for nested lists, adding a `quarter` method to date/time calculations within ActiveSupport, and modifying mailer preview functionality. They also updated documentation and allowed for customizable missing attachment templates within ActionText. These changes involved modifying core framework files and adding new features.
ruby-on-railsrailsframeworkrubymvc
swanson/lagom
Jan 2015 - Aug 2019
A Jekyll blog theme with just the right amount of style
Contributions:19 PRs, 16 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 7 months
jekyll-blog-themejekyll-blogjekylljekyll-theme
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