Matt Olson

@mjolson
backend-focused ops-oriented math nerd
he/him

Mentor

Software Developer

Computer Scientist

Shitposter

Backend Developer

I've done a Ph.D. I've built on-call. I've done senior management. I'm a Haskell developer now and love every minute of it, but everything that I've done before this colours my approach to what and how I build.

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Jun 2021 - Present

Software Developer, Mercury Technologies

Sep 2020 - Apr 2021

Release and Reliability Lead, PayByPhone

Feb 2019 - Sep 2020

Senior manager, software development, PayByPhone

Feb 2017 - Feb 2019

Engineering manager, PayByPhone

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Started a longread-ish blog series about programming aesthetics, something that's been bouncing around my head for years. https://blog.audax-labs.com/posts/2021-10-16-code-aesthetics-1

I wrote a blog post about how I've set up VS Code, primarily for Haskell, primarily for work. Studying the tools I use and getting more effective with them is something I've neglected for the past ...

Mercury's attitude towards "hiring for Haskell is difficult" is to hire people and teach them Haskell. Today I spent a couple hours of my workday with a learning project, getting more comfortable w...

spent an hour and a half this evening hacking away on a side project. it's been years since I've done that on a weeknight, particularly after dinner when the day's been winding down for a while. ni...