Matt Freels's Email & Phone Number

💼 Past Experience

My work experience with FaunaDB at Fauna Inc.FaunaDB is the data API for client-serverless applications with strong consistency, ACID transactions, and global, low latency availability. It is an open source, free software project that currently offers a storage API, schema API, and performance API. FaunaDB is used by thousands of developers around the world, and is currently being used by Twitter.I was a full-stack engineer on numerous social games for Facebook's platform built using Ruby on Rails that ended up being played by millions of people. I worked on both fast-paced prototype projects as well as longer term maintenance, and was responsible for the day-to-day health of the systems I worked on. My responsibilities included the development and deployment of new systems, keeping existing ones, and responding to availability issues with the live service.I was a part of the team that created and maintaina scalable storage service for tweets, which when deployed resulted in a drastic increase in the availability of the system in the face of large spikes of incoming tweets. My work with FaunaDB was very meaningful to me because it allowed me to have a direct impact on the lives of millions of people.

🎓 Education

Matt Freels's education began in 2001 when he received his BS in Interactive Media from Harding University. After successfully completing his education, Matt then spent five years working in the corporate world as a Special Projects Manager.In 2006, Matt decided to change his career and pursue a career in education. He enrolled at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, where he will be working in the K-12 school system.Matt is very motivated and passionate about his education and career goals. He feels thatarranting education is one of the most essential elements of achieving success. Matt is committed to providing quality education to his students and believes that this is possible through his professional work experience and education.

💡 Technical & Interpersonal Skills

From February 2011 to March 2012, MattFreels worked as a Technical Lead, Storage at Twitter. His responsibilities included the development and deployment of new systems, maintaining existing ones, and responding to availability issues with the live service. At Twitter, MattFreels designed and built a scalable storage service for tweets, which when deployed resulted in a drastic increase in the availability of the system in the face of large spikes of incoming tweets. In addition, he helped rebuild and increase the efficiency of Twitter's primary asynchronous processing pipeline, responsible for ensuring the delivery of hundreds of thousands of tweets per second.Matt also worked as a Software Engineer at Serious Business from May 2008 to January 2010. His responsibilities included the development and deployment of social games for Facebook's platform, built using Ruby on Rails. His work at Serious Business resulted in the development and open sourcing of a method to perform zero-downtime schema changes in MySQL for very large tables. Additionally, he ported a large subset of jQuery to Facebook's FBML javascript sandbox, and designed and built a reactive, server-driven javascript event framework.Finally, MattFreels is currently a Chief Architect at Fauna Inc in San Francisco Bay Area. FaunaDB is the data API for client-serverless applications with strong consistency, ACID transactions, and global, low latency availability.