Cameron Matheson
Software Engineer at WorkOS
South Jordan, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCameron Matheson is a seasoned software engineer with 15 years of experience building backend systems for both education and fintech products, currently contributing at WorkOS after roles at Plaid and Divvy. He spent nearly a decade at Instructure contributing to the open-source Canvas LMS GraphQL API—adding Datadog instrumentation, improving grading and filtering functionality, and enhancing module/page support—showing a strong focus on observability and resilient data flows. Comfortable in fast-moving startups and larger engineering organizations alike, he brings practical expertise in shipping reliable APIs and removing technical friction (e.g., deprecating feature flags cleanly). Based in South Jordan, Utah, he combines deep backend craftsmanship with a track record of improving operational visibility and maintainability in production systems.
16 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Utah
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
wpgraphql10
ruby10
wordpress-graphql10
graphql10
ruby-on-rails10
postgresql9
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enviroment9
hyperlink9
shell9
testing8
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
instructure/canvas-lms
Nov 2011 - Dec 2019
The open LMS by Instructure, Inc.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:908 commits, 6 comments in 8 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Cameron focused on back-end development tasks, specifically implementing new features and modifying existing code within the GraphQL API for the Canvas LMS platform. Their contributions included adding Datadog instrumentation for monitoring graphql queries, removing a feature flag, and making the assignment override instrumenter work as expected. Further work involved enhancing functionality for assignment grading and filtering, and adding support for module and page types.
lmsinstructurecanvas-lmsgerrit-mirror
cmatheson/dotfiles
Apr 2013 - Nov 2022
config stuff
Contributions:89 commits, 2 PRs, 26 pushes in 9 years 8 months
configurationkarabinerconfigdotfileshammerspoon
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