My name is Matthew Petruzziello and I'm a U2 Software Engineering student at McGill University with an Aerospace Engineering minor. I have experience in full-stack development, developer relations, and DevOps.
🤖 I am currently a Software Developer Intern at Botpress on the Growth Engineering team for Summer 2025.
💻 I previously worked as a DevRel Engineer Intern at Botpress on the Growth Engineering team for Winter 2025.
⚙️ I also worked as a Software Engineer Intern at Rustica on the Infrastructure team from February 2024 to August 2024.
February 2025
You can find the project specs here. The open-source repository is here.
My contributions are under the '@mpetruzziello' handle.
What the project entails:
Developed a full-stack financial wellness web application that secured first place in the Sun Life Sponsored Challenge. Integrated a friendly AI chatbot “Fin”, built with Botpress, to fetch transactions from a PostgreSQL backend and provide real-time budgeting advice on a React/Node.js frontend.
Designed interactive budgeting tools, a financial literacy quiz, and accessibility features (e.g. screen-reader support, audio playback) to improve financial literacy and inclusivity for all users.
Leveraged a Python FastAPI framework for secure user authentication and account data retrieval.
September 2024 - November 2024
Built test software for sending and receiving radio signals from the ground station to the rocket using C++ and Teensy 4.0/4.1 microcontrollers.
August 2024
Created a lexer and parser for a custom programming language called Ilys. Both are written in C++. I started this project to get prepared for my OCaml course. I do want to learn compiler design in the future and will come back to this project. See it here.
Click the following links to see my open source contributions to Botpress! I contributed to the main Botpress repository. I also contributed to the Botpress Growth repository and Botpress Docs repo.
- Email: [email protected]
- LinkedIn: matthew-petruzziello
- GitHub: @mpetruzziello | @matthewbotpress
NOTE: my personal github contains my personal projects + hackathons, while the matthewbotpress github contains my work and open source contributions for Botpress.