Matt Ross Email & Phone Number

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Lead Engineer for a 14-person development team in a $300M venture-backed, Series D real estate tech startup. Lead the planning, development, and execution of a multi-year migration effort resulting in automation increases from 25% to 100% while operating as mentor to engineers within the team and primary technical contact to external teams and non-engineer stakeholders.

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Experienced contributor to software powering a hardware platform in need of long term refactoring and maintenance efforts. Brought attention to code quality and reliability concerns, introduced industry best-practices, and refocused technical direction of next-gen plans to include additional hardware form factors with agility and graceful degradation.

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Managed a small team of engineers highly effective in turning out big team projects.Oversaw buildout and support of Sky Sports Red Button support for F1. Guided large scale migration by consumers to new platforms from legacy systems.

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Maintained, expanded, and improved highly available, distributed, real-time data pipelines. Owned multiple projects from initial spec through implementation and long term support. Worked with colleagues to ensure a high level of rigor and quality in projects and services maintained over the long term. Kept code bases up to date with applicable approaches to ensure ease of implementation and speed of delivery as product requirements changed.

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Initiated and led codebase test improvements starting from 0% coverage and ending with easily identifiable regressions in a short feedback loop and a reliable, hands-off CI/CD pipeline.Identified core technologies and concepts in use and consumed documentation to become the go-to team reference for toolchain knowledge and expertise.

Wayne, Pennsylvania, Us

Spec'ed, designed, and developed customer friendly business websites using various technologies on both the frontend and backend.Stayed abreast of a rapidly evolving technological landscape in order to keep customer products up to date with best practices to keep costs reasonable, development effort low, and user experience positive.Maintained professional customer relationships through tight deadlines in collaboration with product stakeholders in different locations with minimal managerial oversight.

Freelance web development for my own clients including local bands and small business owners, as well as contract development work with local design, branding, and marketing firms.

Handled front-end JavaScript and CSS work for major international brand marketplaces while maintaining backwards compatibility as far back as IE5.Maintained server logic in a legacy, custom CMS split across multiple concurrently running versions.

Breakout and coding of websites provided by design department.Creation and management of in-house database systems.Installation, setup and management of in-house server systems.

Head of in-house IT and Web Development. Manage online ordering, sales, promotions, and product listings. Includes design, in-house network setup/management, server (Bash/SQL/Exec) script creation/management and database management.Oversaw complete redesign/redeployment of new website including custom coding of API/MSSQL Database interfacing scripts to manage inventory, sales margin and customer database.