Matthew Myers
Clifton Park,NY
Summary
Complex problem-solver with analytical and driven mindset. Happiest when I'm building novel solutions with an eager team. Seeking a role in an organization that prioritizes continued learning and pushes engineers to be their best.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Principal Backend Engineer
Foxy AI
01.2022 - Current
- As the sole backend engineer, redesigned and implemented a full B2B enterprise API from an inheritted B2C PoC
- Tasked with implementing and maintaining architecture, development, dev ops, as well as participating in sales, support, and product roadmapping for FoxyAI
- Scaled from thew few hundred images daily PoC with a p90 of 15 minutes, to 400,000 unique images daily running across over 50 models with a p90 of 18 seconds
Software Engineering Team Lead
Hi Marley
07.2021 - 12.2021
- As an engineering team lead, I focused heavily on designing and documenting our portion of the system, training my team of engineers on the SMS functionality of our system, and leading a technical refactor reduce dependencies and create clear separation from our micro service and the rest of the system
- Our work enabled new workflows, reduced the rate of unexpected behavior, and implemented new features including after chat surveys, multi party texting, and first notification of loss
- This allowed our customers to get immediate feedback to improve their training of operators and reduce the time to close for cases by up to 3 days.
Product Owner
Hi Marley
09.2020 - 10.2021
- As Product Owner, in addition to my engineering work, I took ownership of the backbone of our product, SMS functionality
- Working with leaders from each department of the organization in an agile manner we defined, sized, and organized incoming features and bug backlog.
Software Engineer
Hi Marley
08.2018 - 07.2021
- As one of the first engineers hired on during the seed round of funding, I was tasked with taking the PoC platform and reworking it to be scalable, reliable, and production ready on a serverless architecture as well as adding in new features to secure additional clients.
Junior Software Engineer
Aveniros
08.2017 - 08.2018
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Binghamton University
Binghamton, NY05.2017
Skills
- Serverless Architecture
- Distributed System Architecture
- Kubernetes
- Databases: Mongo, Dynamo, PostgreSQL
- Programming Languages: Go, NodeJS, Typescript, Python
- Cloud Providers: AWS, GCP
- API Design and Development
Projects
- DIY Smart Home: A completely local smart home environment using microcontrollers to automate a 1950's GE low voltage light relay hub
- "Dillweed" Home Server: My home lab server which I use as a testing ground for various side projects with friends, including LLMs, Text-to-Speech, Speech-to-Text, and other generative AI projects
Timeline
Principal Backend Engineer
Foxy AI
01.2022 - Current
Software Engineering Team Lead
Hi Marley
07.2021 - 12.2021
Product Owner
Hi Marley
09.2020 - 10.2021
Software Engineer
Hi Marley
08.2018 - 07.2021
Junior Software Engineer
Aveniros
08.2017 - 08.2018
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Binghamton University
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