Self-Taught Since Seventh Grade
Matt Anderson builds backend services and full-stack apps, and has taught programming since 2018.
Born in 2001, Matt Anderson has been tinkering with code since the seventh grade. Self-taught, he started with Java to make Minecraft mods, then picked up JavaScript and got into game design with the HTML canvas. Most of those games never left a folder on his laptop, but they taught him some of the fundamentals of software design.
Through Bentonville's Ignite program, where he was the only student attending from an outside school, Matt landed a web app internship on Walmart's Ethics & Compliance team in 2018. When he got to college, his experience let him skip straight to 400-level courses as a freshman.
He built a contractor management platform at Blogs for Brands with React, FastAPI and SQL Server. At 7 Brew Coffee he ran technology for more than 200 locations, from point-of-sale to inventory, and set up the Kubernetes deployments and CI/CD pipelines behind it. At Gravitate he built Python microservices and led a pod of developers and QA engineers. Today he's a full stack engineer at Xtremis.AI.
Matt loves teaching. In 2018 he started teaching Python, JavaScript and HTML to kids ages 7 to 14 at Code Ninjas. In college he tutored the C++ course, and in 2019 he founded the Computer Science Academy at John Brown University, an eight-week Python course for students ages 11 to 18, raising the money to award scholarships to underserved students.
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