What I Do

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

I’ve worked as:

• Developer at Harvest
• Tech Lead & Employee #1 at Give Real
• Founding Web Developer at Liquidware
• Early Developer with Change Healthcare
• 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. Cool thing is, the software we wrote is still around and actively developed! oemr.org Open Source wins again).

and a bunch of freelancing.

I’ve built:

• 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.
• 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 lots of other projects (notably SeedFu, Chosen, Mercury, Facebooker). It’s a busy world out there!

Other stuff:

I’ve been working with Rails since v 0.11, and Linux since middle school. I went to school for music & recording about a million years ago (and worked in Mastering). I still muck around with it. I also wrote for Southeast Performer magazine for two years.

I’ve lived in Nashville, Brooklyn, Grenada, and Berlin. I love Coffee.

I’m on Flickr.