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I'm a senior software developer with 10+ years building scalable APIs and cloud infrastructure for enterprise clients and startups. I specialize in TypeScript/Node.js and AWS, with experience in Rust and Go, and I enjoy turning complex requirements into reliable, user-centric systems. I've led infrastructure migrations, data integrations, and developer tooling initiatives, focusing on performance, security, and developer experience. I love collaborating across teams to ship robust platforms and empower others to innovate.…I'm a senior software developer with 10+ years building scalable APIs and cloud infrastructure for enterprise clients and startups. I specialize in TypeScript/Node.js and AWS, with experience in Rust and Go, and I enjoy turning complex requirements into reliable, user-centric systems. I've led infrastructure migrations, data integrations, and developer tooling initiatives, focusing on performance, security, and developer experience. I love collaborating across teams to ship robust platforms and empower others to innovate.

Matthew Cantelon

Full Stack Developer, Back-End Developer, Web Developer, +2

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I'm a senior software developer with 10+ years building scalable APIs and cloud infrastructure for enterprise clients and startups. I specialize in TypeScript/Node.js and AWS, with experience in Rust and Go, and I enjoy turning complex requirements into reliable, user-centric systems. I've led infrastructure migrations, data integrations, and developer tooling initiatives, focusing on performance, security, and developer experience. I love collaborating across teams to ship robust platforms and empower others to innovate.…I'm a senior software developer with 10+ years building scalable APIs and cloud infrastructure for enterprise clients and startups. I specialize in TypeScript/Node.js and AWS, with experience in Rust and Go, and I enjoy turning complex requirements into reliable, user-centric systems. I've led infrastructure migrations, data integrations, and developer tooling initiatives, focusing on performance, security, and developer experience. I love collaborating across teams to ship robust platforms and empower others to innovate.

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I’m a senior software developer with 10+ years building scalable APIs and cloud infrastructure for enterprise clients and startups. I specialize in TypeScript/Node.js and AWS, with experience in Rust and Go, and I enjoy turning complex requirements into reliable, user-centric systems.

I’ve led infrastructure migrations, data integrations, and developer tooling initiatives, focusing on performance, security, and developer experience. I love collaborating across teams to ship robust platforms and empower others to innovate.

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Work Experience

Senior Software Developer (Founding Team) at Platformatic

May 31, 2022 - Present

* Architected and developed 70% of a multi-tenant SaaS platform for running customer applications, scaling from v0.0.1 to v1.0.0 in 6 months using Platformatic (Node.js/Fastify). * Designed a secure Kubernetes API gateway reducing the attack surface from hundreds of endpoints to 10, enabling simplified customer configuration and deployment across cloud and bare-metal environments. * Led the pivot from SaaS to on-prem delivery, building the installation system with Bash, Terraform, and Helm, with docs and tests across EKS, GKE, and local k3s/k3d. * Created and open-sourced a local development tool for the team, saving approximately $12K/year in infrastructure costs and 80 hours/month in environment setup time.

Senior Software Developer at mobileLIVE

May 1, 2021 - May 1, 2022

Migrated 30 call center services from OpenShift to GKE as part of a 5-person team, updating Jenkins CI/CD pipelines to support dual deployment during the transition and enabling zero-downtime cutover. Refactored database connections and secrets management across all 30 services to migrate from organization-owned to company-owned HashiCorp Vault, adapting both Express.js and Fastify-based applications. Coordinated phased testing with 20 developer leads and delivered runbooks/docs for the migrated environment, providing post-cutover on-call support.

Senior Software Developer at CTO.ai

September 30, 2020 - April 30, 2021

* Volunteered to own a critical Go API after all Go developers left, reverse-engineering thousands of lines of undocumented code. Migrated 30% of the Go API functionality to Node.js microservices, enabling a JS team to maintain and extend the codebase, including moving customer data access to a GraphQL API. * Resolved a major performance incident by building a GraphQL caching layer for Keycloak user lookups, reducing response times from 300ms+ to under 50ms. * Migrated a monolithic EC2-based Kubernetes cluster to EKS on Fargate, defining infrastructure in AWS CDK and reducing costs by 40% by eliminating always-on compute.

Senior Developer - Platform & Tools at TELUS Digital

July 1, 2019 - October 1, 2020

Maintained a Node.js API gateway handling over 1 million requests per month, providing routing between external clients, internal network services, and enterprise systems while managing OAuth token creation and refresh for hundreds of applications across a 500-developer organization. Developed a proof-of-concept migration to Kong API Gateway, replicating all routing and OAuth functionality to enable commercial SLA support, access to the plugin ecosystem, and alignment with enterprise-wide standardization efforts. Created a Fastify plugin that automated OAuth token management, replacing ad-hoc implementations with a single import and reducing integration burden for new applications.

Tech Lead - API Team at TELUS Digital

June 1, 2018 - May 1, 2019

Grew the API team from 2 to 10 developers, implementing streamlined onboarding processes and documentation for VPN setup, enterprise services, and tool versioning. Led a team owning 4 critical ecommerce APIs handling thousands of requests per day. Implemented comprehensive monitoring with New Relic and standardized Kibana queries, reducing escalations to the development team by ~90% through improved alerting and noise reduction. Established documentation standards and distributed code review processes, reducing review turnaround from 1-2 days to same-day for 90% of PRs.

Senior Developer - API Team at TELUS Digital

November 1, 2017 - June 1, 2018

Reduced failed orders by 20% by instrumenting the ordering API, implementing automatic retries, and establishing shared ownership with the Cart team through joint alerting on failures. Built a recovery system that stashed failures in a database with alerting and retry scripts, and documented all failure modes. Proactively discovered PII exposure in system logs, remediated six months of historical data across API services, and provided cleanup queries and obfuscation patterns to multiple teams to address organization-wide compliance risk.

Senior Developer - Checkout Team at TELUS Digital

April 30, 2016 - October 31, 2017

* Integrated the cart checkout with Shopping Cart and Order APIs, enabling customers to complete purchases without call center callbacks for the first time. * Simplified marketing lead page development by componentizing the PHP/Twig codebase, reducing turnaround from one week to 1-2 days. * Collaborated with customer support to migrate from PHP to React/Node.js across 5 teams (~50 developers), integrating order and cart APIs and contributing to frontend React component development.

Co-founder at Biobox

March 29, 2022 - November 28, 2025

Co-founded a link-in-bio platform serving 3,000 users with over 500,000 unique views on user profiles.