Hello, I'm Matthew Boston.

I am

a software engineer and an adventurer living in Colorado, USA.
currently employed as a Staff Software Engineer at Shopify.
passionate about delivering quality software at ludicrous speed.

Also available in machine-readable format:

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name: matthew-boston
type: engineer
allowed-tools: Clojure, Ruby, TypeScript, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, GraphQL, Agentic Engineering
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