I am a software developer who is passionate about making products that make customers' lives simpler. I achieve this by building trust with customers and truly understanding how and why they do their work. I believe software is for people and that you can never leave people out of the software development process.

Software Engineer @ From July 2015 to Present (6 months) Software Development Engineer @ I work as an end to end software developer at Amazon. I work with Ruby, Java, Javascript, and CSS and HTML technologies and am responsible to build features from development to design to coding to QA, as well as support. Some projects: I built a tool that reduced the number of manual entries 5-fold for an internal ordering platform and iterated on the product to improve the usability, simplicity, and performance of the page. I worked on setting up a new security system on our service and worked with our customers to set up the simplest clients possible. I am currently working on a project that allows users to make financial approvals on orders made on an internal website. I am a trusted point of contact for our customers to help explain the system and to fix emerging issues. From June 2013 to June 2015 (2 years 1 month) Software Development Intern @ Node.js development with a focus on third-party storage integration. Built a synchronization process to allow users to use the online LaTex editor and to store the artifacts in Dropbox. Learned the details and limitations of the Dropbox API. From February 2013 to May 2013 (4 months) IT Enterprise Intern @ Updated and migrated an Access application used to store payroll information that was interfacing with an Oracle database. Helped set up a website that allows users to view HR and Legal documents. From June 2012 to August 2012 (3 months) Opinion Editor @ Coordinated the opinion section of The Daily Cardinal by editing articles and creating the physical layout of the page 2-3 times a week by planning when our 5-7 columnists and editorial boards would run in the paper. From August 2011 to May 2012 (10 months) IT-Restaurant's Intern @ From May 2011 to September 2011 (5 months) Undergraduate Researcher @ Worked on on a computational chemistry project. I use chemistry software to describe protein folding in the group globin proteins. This job helped springboard me into software development as the process was highly manual. In a desire to make my work easier, I decided to learn how to program. After my first computer programming class, I was able to reproduce the work I did by hand by writing a simple Java program in about 5 dev hours worth of time. Researched different types of globins and helped edit a scientific paper. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/prot.24590/abstract Here is a relevant XKCD (http://xkcd.com/1430/) From May 2010 to June 2011 (1 year 2 months)

B.S, Mathematics, Computer Science @ University of Wisconsin-Madison From 2009 to 2013 Waubonsie Valley High School Matt Beaty is skilled in: Java, C++, HTML 5, JQuery, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel, Databases, Copy Editing, Ruby on Rails, CSS3, Backbone.js, Service Oriented Architecture Design, HTML, JavaScript, Ruby, Software Development, Software Engineering