Matt Clark
Chief Technology Officer at MotionMobs
Birmingham, Alabama, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolMatt Clark is a pragmatic technology leader and CTO based in Birmingham, Alabama, with 14 years of hands-on experience spanning mobile games, backend systems, and DevOps. He co-founded MotionMobs and has a background building game engines and cross-platform mobile titles, having implemented complete iPhone engines and ports to Android using Objective-C, Java and OpenGL ES. At Intelligent Media and Design he now steers technical strategy while still contributing code and infrastructure work, reflecting a builder-leader mentality. His open-source contributions include backend and CI/DevOps improvements to the popular Go web framework Buffalo, showing attention to testing, templating, and deployment workflows. Comfortable toggling between low-level technical delivery and product-facing leadership, he brings practical systems thinking from databases and installers to scalable web stacks. Colleagues find him resourceful and detail-oriented, with a knack for turning legacy tools into stable, production-ready platforms.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Programming, Game Design, Physics, Math, Japanese, Bachelor of Science, Computer Programming, Game Design, Physics, Math, Japanese at ITT-Tech, BessemerBachelor of Science; Associate of Applied Science, Information Technology-Multimedia Option, Bachelor of Science; Associate of Applied Science, Information Technology-Multimedia Option at ITT-TechComputer Science 2003-2005, Computer Science 2003-2005 at University of Alabama at Birmingham
Stackoverflow
571reputation
187kreached
33answers
36questions
Github Skills (19)
go10
devops10
postgresql9
cicd9
web-framework8
golang8
webpages7
web-content7
gitlab6
mime-types6
uitableview6
nodejs6
android6
docker6
dockers6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
gobuffalo/buffalo
Jan 2018 - Jun 2019
Rapid Web Development w/ Go
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:13 commits, 6 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily contributed to the backend and DevOps aspects of the project. Their work includes fixing GitLab CI test configurations to install the psql client for tests and adding support for "txt" template rendering in the render engine. Further contributions involved fixing invalid formatting in a configuration file related to database setup for different environments and also moving plugins into the core codebase. These changes improve the testing process, extend the functionality of the templating system, and enhance the overall project's build and deployment process.
goweb-developmentgolanggobuffalorails
MotionMobs/buffalo-token-auth
May 2019 - Feb 2022
Token Auth generator plugin for Buffalo
Contributions:22 commits, 7 PRs, 17 pushes in 2 years 9 months
auth
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.