Matthew Hacker

Matthew Hacker has a diverse work experience spanning over several years. Matthew began their professional career working as a Student Assistant in the Center for Advanced Medicine at the University of Chicago in 2002. Matthew then served as a Sales Analyst Temp at Ross Stores in 2010 before transitioning to a Temp. Marketing Coordinator role at Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP in 2011. Later that year, Matthew worked as a Temp. Information Specialist at Vertex Pharmaceuticals.

In 2011, they joined the American Meteorological Society as a Production Assistant, where they ensured adherence to formatting requirements for atmospheric science journals and provided customer service to authors. In 2014, Matthew moved to O'Reilly, where they started as a Production Editor before gradually progressing to the role of Digital Publishing Specialist. In this role, they developed software tools, wrote scripts, and created stylesheets to improve content production and distribution processes.

Matthew Hacker continued their journey at O'Reilly and subsequently held the position of Senior Digital Publishing Specialist. Matthew led the development and maintenance of a publishing toolchain and implemented new features based on requirements from downstream ingestion systems. In 2022, they took on the role of Support Engineer, responsible for updating content and metadata in O'Reilly's microservice ecosystem.

Currently, Matthew works at O'Reilly as a Software Engineer, where they focus on updating content and API responses, implementing admin actions and reports, and investigating triage items for the metadata and content engineering team. Throughout their career, Matthew has demonstrated a strong technical acumen and proficiency in various programming languages and tools.

Matthew Hacker completed their undergraduate education from 2002 to 2006 at the University of Chicago, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Language & Literature. Matthew continued their academic journey by pursuing Italian literature at Columbia University from 2008 to 2010, although it is not specified whether they obtained a degree during this time. Matthew also holds two additional certifications, namely the edX Verified Certificate for Introduction to Computational Thinking and Data Science obtained in December 2021, and the edX Certificate for Introduction to Computer Science and Programming Using Python. No specific details regarding the completion month and year are provided for the latter certification.