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Co-founder of Code Benders, Matt Kern, has over 12 years of technology experience. He’s as seasoned as he is tall – an overshadowing 6′ 7″.

Matt’s experience ranges far and wide; from big data to mobile phones. He’s worked on projects for government to internet startups and everything in between in roles varying from Systems Administrator to Project Manager. That breadth of experience has given him knowledge that cuts across typical silos and allows him to engineer and architect systems with deep understanding of the full stack. Though he cut his teeth developing in Perl, PHP, and Java as well as frontend technologies like HTML, JavaScript and CSS, he finds himself enamored with the ease and elegance of Ruby and the Ruby on Rails ecosystem. In fact, he’s spent the last 6 years developing internet and mobile applications in Ruby on Rails and JavaScript.

A polyglot at heart, he’s constantly learning new languages and technologies in search of ways to make life easier and more enjoyable for himself and his clients through technologies like Ruby on Rails—mostly an attempt at finding ways to spend ever more time roaming the mountains of Central Oregon with his family.

Matt is one of the organizers of the Ruby on Ales conference here in Bend, OR.  His work experience includes some pretty impressive projects:

Palm Pre – One of 7 engineers dubbed the “Lunatics” responsible for redesigning and architecting the webOS application stack, with patents pending at Palm, Inc. (now HP) related to the design and implementation of the Mojo JavaScript application framework and the email application.

PVPowered – Designed and developed a distributed solar inverter monitoring application written in Ruby and utilizing components of Ruby on Rails.  Monitoring application was designed to provide near real time updates and historical trending on tens of thousands of solar inverters across the world with a plug and play device and no configuration needed by the customer. Intimately involved with the design of firmware, embedded systems, data gathering and aggregation, and the web front end.

Ricoh Corporation – Designed and developed custom web based reporting system to put relevant real-time and historical data culled from hundreds of thousands of distributed copiers at customer sites across the country in the hands of key account decision makers and sales forces.

Ariba – Responsible for the development and delivery of functional and technical implementation/customization/EAI classes intended for System Integrators (including Big 5 consulting firms) and partners.  Trained hundreds of internal employees and consultants from Big 5 consulting firms, as well as the smaller System Integration shops.