matthew hawthorne
Independent software engineer, consultant, and advisor in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania area.
- Supreme Informatics (my consulting company)
- Push to Prod newsletter
An early release of my new book Push to Prod or Die Trying is now available.
It's a sociotechnical narrative in which I describe my time working at a fictional tech company named Neurafilm, inspired by real experiences.
Do you enjoy reading about building large-scale systems with tight deadlines, gruesome production incidents, cutthroat colleagues, hilarious bugs, euphoric successes, and dismal failures?
If so, this book is definitely your type of thing.
talks and panels
Putting Power into Practice as a Staff+ Engineer (LeadDev West Coast 10/2023)
Influencing Without Management Authority as a Senior Individual Contributor (LeadDev webinar 10/2021)
What is Senior IC? Flavours of Technical Leadership (StaffPlus Live 9/2021)
Doing More by Doing Less: A Loafer’s Guide to Software Engineering (PhillyETE 4/2021)
Risky Business: Taking Risks in Production (LeadDev Live 4/2020)
other writing
2021 Outages Are Coming For You
2013 Announcing Zuul: Edge Service in the Cloud
2013 I Push, Therefore I Am: 2 Days at Etsy
patents
2013 Proxy application with dynamic filter updating
2012 Customized options for consumption of content