$> whois mrhanlon

Hi, I'm Matt, a seasoned full-stack software engineer with over 15 years of experience across a variety of industries including computational science, B2B and B2C payments platforms, optimizing restaurant procurement management, and social networks. I enjoy writing both frontend and backend code. I am dedicated to coding standards and best practices, in particular web standards and accessibility. I strive for high-quality, high-performance, and highly maintainable code. I like solving interesting new problems, and am constantly looking for opportunities for self-improvement and to learn new things. I always work with the hope that things I create will serve to improve the lives of the people who use them.

Curriculum Vitae

Current Position

Principal Software Engineer, Zitti, Inc.

Areas of specialization

Full Stack DevelopmentTypeScriptNode.jsRuby on RailsPostgreSQLReactAWSDocker

Work experience

Zitti, Inc., remote
2022–present
SchoolAdmin, Austin, TX
2019–2022
Oracle Social Cloud, Oracle, Inc., Austin, TX
2016–2019
Texas Advanced Computing Center, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
2010–2016
Alliance Communications Management, Mobile, AL
2007–2010

Education

MS in Computer Science, The University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama
2009
BS in Mathematics, Spring Hill College, Mobile, Alabama
2003

Honors & awards

Outstanding Master’s Thesis, University of South Alabama
2010–2011
Outstanding Graduate Student, University of South Alabama
2008
CIS Graduate Fellowship, University of South Alabama
2008
President's Honors, Mathematics, Spring Hill College
2003
Hutchinson Award, Philosophy, Spring Hill College
2003

Selected publications & talks

Journal articles

R. Dooley, M. Hanlon, “Recipes 2.0: Building for Today and Tomorrow”. [Special issue] Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. doi:10.1002/cpe.3285.
2014
M. Hanlon, W. Smith, S. Mock, “Providing resource information to users of a national computing center”. [Special issue] Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. doi:10.1002/cpe.3233.
2014

Conference proceedings

M. Hanlon, et al., “Securing HPC: Development of a Low Cost, Open Source Multi-factor Authentication Infrastructure”. Proceedings of the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis. SC '17.
2017
M. Hanlon, et al., “The Arabidopsis Information Portal: An Application Platform for Data Discovery”. Proceedings of the 9th Gateway Computing Environments Workshop.
2014
M. Hanlon, et al., “Benefits of NoSQL databases for portals & science gateways”. Proceedings of the TeraGrid Conference: Extreme Digital Discovery.
2011
M. Hanlon, et al., “My-Plant.org: A phylogenetically structured social network”. Gateway Computing Environments Workshop (GCE).
2010

Presentations

“Discovering and using Araport Data APIs in Araport Science Apps”. The First Araport Developers Conference, TACC, Austin, TX, USA. Tutorial.
2014
“Project Management and Automation: Using Maven and Grunt to accelerate development”. Software Engineering Assembly Conference, UCAR, Boulder, CO, USA. Slides: HTML5, PDF, Demo code
2014
“Federated Authentication in a Campus System”. Liferay.edu User Group. Webcast. Slides: PDF
2014
“Using Liferay as a platform for Computational Science”. Liferay North American Symposium, San Francisco, USA.
2013
“Introduction to Science Gateways Workshop”. Elizabeth City State University, North Carolina, USA. Demo code
2013

Open source software contributions

Less Than-Slash — A package for the Atom Editor that closes open markup tags when you type </.
CommnQ — An AMQP library for Node.js with conveniences for running multiple tasks on AMQP messages.
Arabidopsis Information Portal — Various projects developed for the Arabidopsis Information Portal.
Chameleon — Various development as part of the Chameleon Cloud Testbed.
iPlant Collaborative — Various projects developed by the iPlant Collaborative.
Handlebars.java — Logic-less and semantic Mustache templates with Java
jGrowl — An unobtrusive notification system for web applications.

Volunteering

Dragon Band “Props Crew” — parent volunteer to help build transport show props for my child's high school marching band.
2023
Austin GiveCamp 2014 — Part of a hackathon team to develop a Flask web app for The Ghisallo Foundation's Cycle Academy project.
2014

Hobbies

Running, cooking, 3D printing, science fiction