Matt – Python, Typescript, React
Matt is an experienced Engineering Leader with a diverse entrepreneurial background, having founded a dev shop and served as a CTO. With over a decade of hands-on experience in technical work and leadership, he’s scaled teams from 2 to 30 engineers and built robust engineering processes. Matt has experience with both pre-LLM applications and recent work involving LLM apps.
Matt focuses on driving meaningful impact and is passionate about empowering individuals with ownership and autonomy. Outside of work, he is an avid cyclist, with a recent fundraiser for AIDS/Life Cycle.
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CTO
Enterprise end-to-end software solution revolutionizing supply chain management. Gravity delivers the control and visibility you need to optimize operations, mitigate risks and control costs. Currently over $210bn total value of goods managed.
● Oversaw and standardized development, DevOps, product management, QA, and support for a high-growth B2B SaaS cloud-based orchestrated supply chain visibility and execution platform. ● Grew a globally remote software team from 2 to 30 full-time staff with four dev leads, retention 4+ years ● Led the creation of a Data as a Service that packaged data into highly scalable microservices with 1000s of transactions a second, which increased company revenue by 25% in 4 months ● Transformed a monolithic API to microservices, with Redis caching, and Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform orchestration which increased uptime by 15%, development speed by 30%, maintainability by 80%, and app loading speed from minutes to sub-seconds ● Implemented TypeScript/Next.js, and React.js into web application stack, resulting in 50% faster development and improved app speed for users, by creating a reusable component library ● Built a TypeScript, Node, and Docker project management microservice, fostering transparent and interconnected product and engineering team communication
CTO / Co-founder
It's a Hong Kong-based software house specializing in modern web applications.
● 86it Group, a Hong Kong based software design agency specializing in modern web applications ● Increased profits by 50% by creating and running a successful online boat rental company for Hong Kong's Junk boat market using AWS, React.js, Node.js, Express.js and PostgreSQL ● Created 6 MVPs for 6 clients in 2 years utilizing AWS, PostgreSQL, Express/Node.js, Mongo, Redis, Ruby on Rails, and React.js
Head of Engineering
Enterprise end-to-end software solution revolutionizing supply chain management. Gravity delivers the control and visibility you need to optimize operations, mitigate risks and control costs. Currently over $210bn total value of goods managed.
● Transformed engineering team, architecture & codebase for peak performance, resulting in 100% increase in efficiency and productivity ● Decreased deployment time 200% in 1 month by creating pull-request driven CI/CD with GitHub actions and Jenkins build servers ● Decreased maintenance burden by 50% by enacting code
Senior Software Engineer
It's a technology startup focusing on Bitcoin payments in the gaming industry.
● Hong Kong based technology startup focusing on Bitcoin payments in the gaming industry. Built a Bitcoin payment system capable of 1000s of daily transactions with a Ruby on Rails API and AWS ● Spearheaded the creation of a highly efficient React.js mobile web app servicing a client base of 10,000 active users
Web Development Instructor
Lead instruction for intensive bootcamp creating software engineers from scratch.
● Instructor for intensive 3 month project-based bootcamp focused on creating modern full-stack web developers. Transformed students from 0 to 1 web developers by practicing agile methodology with Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, and JavaScript