Julian Matherson

Healthcare and phototherapy software platform serving clinicians, patients, operations teams, and connected medical device workflows.

• Own and extend production Ruby on Rails features for ClearLink, including patient records, prescription workflows, device operations, admin tooling, messaging, and document handling.
• Build and maintain workflows that connect the Rails application to medical device behavior, internal support needs, and infrastructure concerns such as secure access, logs, files, and operational state.
• Implemented remote device support tooling that helps operations teams perform safer resets and maintenance actions with less manual intervention.
• Partner with CTO, device engineering, support, and operations stakeholders to convert ambiguous platform needs into scoped Rails changes that can ship safely.
• Support rebrand and platform transitions while preserving production reliability for users already depending on the system.
• Use AI-assisted development carefully for code review preparation, implementation planning, documentation, test case generation, and release notes without delegating ownership of correctness.

Event management, ticketing, upgrade, and operations software supporting live event schedules.

• Developed event management, ticketing, and upgrade flows in a production Ruby on Rails application.
• Used Hotwire and Stimulus to ship interactive interfaces while keeping the stack Rails-centered and maintainable.
• Improved API endpoints and database queries used by internal tooling and external consumers.
• Worked with product and operations staff to align technical changes with event requirements, deadlines, and release windows.

Financial planning and simulation platform for financial advisors and CPAs.

• Built Ruby on Rails features for Simplivisor, a financial planning application used to model advisor scenarios and client-facing projections.
• Reworked the simulation engine to support JSON-configured scenarios instead of a small set of fixed planning options.
• Improved simulation performance enough to support interactive use and faster review by advisors.
• Modeled cash flows, annuities, and time-based financial events in a way that kept results traceable and understandable.
• Worked directly with the founding advisor to validate financial logic, edge cases, and presentation of results.

Video-centered customer engagement and messaging software for the automotive industry.

• Implemented newsletter and autoresponder features in a Ruby on Rails product used for customer engagement.
• Refactored backend services to improve maintainability as product usage and feature surface area increased.
• Integrated external messaging and analytics services used by customer-facing workflows.
• Released features on short timelines while preserving existing behavior in a live SaaS product.

Concessions ordering platform integrated into sports venue and team application workflows.

• Contributed to the REST API supporting food ordering inside the Dallas Cowboys application experience.
• Worked with an external vendor to keep integration behavior stable during live event conditions.
• Assisted with deployments and release processes in a startup environment.
• Wrote production Ruby on Rails code under senior developer review.

Faith-based Rails application and reviewed open-source learning work.

• Apprenticed under a senior Ruby on Rails developer with emphasis on practical Rails development.
• Contributed to reviewed open-source Rails work while learning MVC structure, Git branching, pull requests, and testing basics.
• Built early discipline around reading existing code before changing behavior.