Ancient History

Howdy, I’m Matthew Beale. Drop me an email: matt.beale@madhatted.com

I’ve worked as:

• Developer at Harvest
• Tech Lead & Employee #1 at Give Real
• Early Developer with ICA
• General Hackery at Acolyte Technologies
• Founder at Synitech (we were in High School and had no idea what we were doing. Great thing is, the software we wrote is still around and actively developed! oemr.org).

And done consulting with To Be, Art.sy, Betaworks, Change Healthcare, and several others.

I’ve built:

• loadImage a small JavaScript library providing a reliable callback after an image is loaded.
• Play Hangman as an experiment to learn Ember.js.
• Spinto launched in April 2012, helping developers and content editors work together.
• Barron, a resource locking API for Ruby and the command-line.
• Give for Music where we raised over $1000 to fight drought in Africa.
• Thebes, a Spinx config generator for Rails.
• RankedModel, a row sorting library built for Rails 3+ on ARel.
• PushpinWeb won a prize at the first NYC BigApps competition.
• Liquidware, and several other commerce sites for them as a co-founder.
• ShardTheLove, a database sharding library we used in production at Give Real.
• Scenestr, a tour mapping site scraping MySpace (now defunct).
• Tables on Cows, a popular & fast MooTools table sorting library.

And contributed to many other projects (notably Ember.js, Ember-Data, SeedFu, Chosen, Mercury, Facebooker).

About a million years ago, I went to school for music & recording (then worked in mastering). I still muck around with it. I also wrote for Southeast Performer Magazine.

I’ve lived in Nashville, Brooklyn, Grenada, and Berlin. I love espresso, let’s get some.

I’m on Flickr.