Matt Pruitt

• Led a cross-functional team of 7 (engineering, design, product, QA) responsible for Happily’s event platform and marketplace.
• Architected and delivered Appily, a marketplace for event professionals (9,000+ profiles), built with Elixir, Phoenix, and LiveView on PostgreSQL.
• Oversaw engineering of Happily Landing (event websites) and Happily Check-in (tablet badge printing, attendee management), ensuring product cohesion and system integrity.
• Served on the company leadership team alongside the CEO and Head of Finance, shaping overall product and business strategy.

• Consulted on a variety of full stack and backend Ruby on Rails and Elixir projects.
• Built and maintained web applications in industries such as cryptocurrency, medical, marketplaces, and education.

• Engineered multiple Elixir services supporting the launch of online ordering and delivery, deployed at scale in production.
• Architected and built a foundational Identity and Access Management service in Elixir, enabling consistent permission control across internal services.

• Engineered and maintained backend services in Ruby and Elixir, supporting core platform functionality.
• Developed an abandoned shopping cart service that increased GMV by $750,000 within three months of launch.
• Architected and built a Yelp integration service enabling purchases directly through Yelp’s platform.
• Partnered with product managers as engineering representative, ensuring technical feasibility and scope alignment during design discussions.

Led development of Ruby application performance monitoring tools, including a custom code profiler.

Engineered API integrations connecting third-party IoT devices to the Wink smart home platform in Ruby on Rails.

• Led the Stability Team to help scale and maintain one of the top sports sites in the U.S.
• Architected and delivered a new JSON API for Bleacher Report’s mobile apps, scaling to over 120,000 requests per minute.

Built shared Rails infrastructure (SSO, search) and gaming apps, including StarCraft II tournament and replay tools.

Co-founded a boutique consultancy delivering 15+ Ruby on Rails applications for clients across diverse industries.