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Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI
Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States 14 work roles 1 school
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Matthew Butt previously worked as VP of Engineering at Northstar and Head of Engineering, Global Financial Platforms at Brex. Matthew Butt holds Meng, Software Engineering from University Of Bradford.

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- Obtained Masters degree in Software Engineering from University of Bradford, 2000- 20 years of commercial development experience across multiple sectors including interior CAD, finance, marketing, social and online video- Hands-on dev experience in many areas, tech and languages- 15 years of team leadership - hiring, building and growing teams- Certified SCRUM master, experienced in Kanban- Handled short and long-term team planning, technical growth and engineering goal setting- Worked on highly trafficked, highly scalable systems handling millions of users- I have an eye for detail and a passion for UX- Advocate for strong testing and monitoring; I've built and implemented several testing & monitoring systems across front and backend

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Member Of Technical Staff

California, United States

Vp Of Engineering

Current

United States, Us

Apr 2023 - Present

Head Of Engineering, Global Financial Platforms

San Francisco, California, Us

Brought together 4 separate teams into our new Financial Platforms group and evolved it over time to be responsible for credit card issuance & processing, global payments, accounting, billing, pricing and underwriting. More than doubled the group up to ~60 engineers, 9 engineering managers. Set forth a money movement vision for the company and supported all teams as Brex went global to ensure we could operate around the world to offer solutions such as global reimbursements & card payments, contactless cards, 3DS auth etc.

Oct 2021 - Apr 2023

Senior Engineering Manager, Underwriting

San Francisco, California, Us

Built Brex's Underwriting team (previously a shared domain between data science & data platform) responsible for constant assessment of customers' financial data to determine credit card spend limits & provide a lovable user experience. Drove exploration & implementation of very small business underwriting, using personal credit data to inform a business line of credit.

Jan 2021 - Oct 2021

Senior Engineering Manager, Experiences

San Francisco, California, Us

Supported our Experiences teams: * Core Experiences - building workflows & platforms to enable highest quality customer support & operations * Internal Tools - owning the infrastructure & key tools for multiple internal systems * Experience Platform - mobile & web portal component libraries & critical flows; comms & client API

Jul 2020 - Jan 2021

Head Of Engineering, Support

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Responsible for all engineering efforts behind Lyft’s customer support experience which covers our in-app help platform, user communications infrastructure (voice, email, in-app messaging and SMS) and tooling that our many thousands of associates use every day. I managed 3 teams (split into 5 pods), ~35 engineers across server, frontend and mobile, including 3 managers. We rebuilt the communications & associate tooling systems as well as providing ML-based self help options for users to resolve their own issues, all of which significantly drove down the cost of support while improving the customer’s experience and satisfaction

Sep 2018 - Jul 2020

Engineering Manager, Acquisition

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Worked cross-functionally with product, data science and growth marketers to create tooling to enable management of thousands of ads across 10+ platforms, all with region-specific requirements, saving ~20 marketers 3 weeks of effort every quarter. Also responsible for Lyft’s referrals programs. Group consisted of 15 engineers, 2 managers.

Oct 2017 - Sep 2018

Vp Engineering

Santa Monica , California, Us

TV TIME's vision is to have the world's largest social TV platform across mobile, web and social media.- Responsible for all engineering for the company - frontend, backend, ops, metrics, QA - across two locations- Responsible for our development process from idea inception to release- Hands-on coding in web (ReactJS/Redux/ES6/PHP) & backend (NodeJS/PHP/AWS)- Moved from SCRUM to Kanban to reduce overhead and increase release frequency- Set short and medium term goals for the engineering teams- Define, build and grow teams for our needs- Performed due diligence & integration with acquired tech company(TV TIME was previously Whipclip, a company that ingested live TV and allowed user to create short video clips of ingested feeds. We rebranded in May 2017)

Jan 2016 - Oct 2017

Development Manager, Site & Mobile

Santa Monica, Ca, Us

- Responsible for all Android, iOS and web development & QA for the Hulu platform- Built Hulu’s first cross-platform feature team- Architect for several of Hulu’s major projects (commercial free tier, Showtime package add-on) to cater for high scalability and complex cross-platform situations- Co-ordinated with multiple teams across Santa Monica, Seattle and Beijing- Worked closely with the product team to increase subscriber growth via UX changes and complex A/B testing- Set hiring processes for teams under my responsibility

Dec 2014 - Dec 2015

Principal Developer Team Lead, Web

Santa Monica, Ca, Us

- Quickly tripled local dev team, working closely with our web team in Beijing- Worked closely with Project Management to streamline our SCRUM process, increase communication and become a much more efficient team- Transitioned QA from customer service team to newly hired in-team QA- Hands-on development in Rails/BackboneJS- Mentored interns in building critical production, highly trafficked systems in production

Jul 2013 - Dec 2014

Partner

Truexpo

Responsible for product management, user experience and software development of the web and mobile experiences for Truexpo, a Chattanooga, TN startup dedicated to revolutionizing the experience for conference goers and other types of mass event.

Jan 2011 - Dec 2014

Director Of User Experience

Area203

Oversee the Development and User Experience teams. Advise on technical architecture, plan projects, co-ordinate between departments and with internal and external clients.

Oct 2010 - Jun 2013

Us Development Manager

Chattanooga, Tn, Us

Software architecture, development (primarily Flex, .Net), team management, full project lifecycle from sales through spec, user experience, technical architecture, development, deployment and support. Setup a development team and all internal networking and servers.

Dec 2004 - Oct 2010

Lead Developer, Interactive Systems

Cre8Tiv

C++ Windows application development, website development in ASP the Flash, Flex and .Net.

Jun 2000 - Dec 2004
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Matthew Butt education

  • University Of Bradford
    University Of Bradford
    Software Engineering
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Matthew Butt works for OpenAI.

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Matthew Butt is listed as Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI.

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Matthew Butt is based in San Francisco Bay Area, United States while working with OpenAI.

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Matthew Butt has worked for Openai, Northstar, Brex, Lyft, and Tv Time.

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Matthew Butt's colleagues at OpenAI include Kabir Tahamid Toki, Kelly Bai, Juan Carlos Rivera Zapatero, Fausto Santos, and Martha Agustina Torres Cortes.

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Matthew Butt holds Meng, Software Engineering from University Of Bradford.

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