Hello world! My name is Matthew, but most call me Matt! I am a Software Engineer, hobbyist game developer, dungeons and dragons DM/Player, Musician, and all around just a nerd. I would love nothing more to connect with you through my socials about all my interests. But here is the rundown of each thing below!

👨‍💻 Software Engineering

I have been a Software Engineer for a very long time. Almost 6+ years at the time of writing this. I worked first for a NASA contractor building software for the ISS programs accounting. It was a lot of fun aggregating all the financial data and turning into presentable data. But as things moved along, I worked in other ventures like DAT Frieght and Analytics and Nordic Semiconductor where most of my time was experiencing developing cloud applicaitons. Both companies offered significant and exiciting challenges in which I am grateful for doing even today. At DAT, I mainly focused on building Freigt Matching and Analytics applications. While at Nordic, I spent my time helping connect IoT devices to the cloud.

Currently in the Software Engineering space, I am mainly focused on the Backend but have been a Full Stack Engineer for the majority of my career. My main languages I work in Typescript for my jobs and Golang for fun on the side because I think its a pretty neat language. But, I have experience in C#/.Net and Java as well in my professional experience. Please feel free to visit my resume, if you want to know everything I have been up to. Also, I will be writting more about Software Engineering so please feel free to visit the blog as well.

🎮 Game Dev

I have picked up this hobby recently because I love video games and I want to utilize my software engineering skills to create them. Its so far been all around fun because I am forced to pickup new skills and learn on the fly. I love learning new things and creating things. Its one of the reasons I am a musician as well. So this was a very natural hobby I wanted to get into. I am already in the works of producing my first game using the Godot engine, so stay tuned on that! I may even also blog about my adventures of Game Dev in my blog.

🎶 Music

On top of Game Dev, I also play the 🎸 guitar and 🎹 piano. I also will be learning how to produce music soon as it is an interest of mine to produce/write my own music instead of just playing the music others make. I started out when I was 5 years old playing the piano. I eventually evolved into playing guitar in my teens and played bassoon in my high school band. Soon after that I just did it on and off at my leisure. Music helps me express myself in ways I cannot, and I am grateful that I have a hobby such as music.