Matt Laroche Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, CA, US

South San Francisco, California, US

San Francisco, CA, US

• Managing connection and health of Square’s Points of Sales to peripherals (e.g. credit card readers, ticket and receipt printers, barcode scanners, and scales). The team is on the critical path for every Square.
• Led the introduction of a Remote Device Management platform, which enabled Square Device Profiles (remote settings) and a Dashboard for Sellers’ IT teams to view and manage their Points of Sale
• Increased operational rigor and team team health by introducing a monthly, bottoms-up review of several qualitative and quantitative measures in order to ensure the team was focused on operating sustainably and.
• Scaled the team from a 12-person, mobile-only team to a 21-person, full stack organization with multiple sprint teams
• Led quarterly and annual planning, including coordination and prioritization with partner teams, working to define scope and timelines with engineers, in close collaboration with Product. This reduced dependency.

San Francisco, CA, US

• Responsible for the core functionality of Square’s flagship Point of Sale on both iOS and Android, including cart building, app navigation, reporting, and notifications
• Square Point of Sale has 4.7 stars on the Google Play Store, and 4.8 stars in the Apple App Store
• Stepped up during a period of high turnover to stabilize the team, ensuring new features kept being released and high priority issues were resolved
• Hired 5 engineers during an 8 month period

San Francisco, CA, US

• Designed and implemented features that replaced or added meaningful functionality to Square Point of Sale, including Sales Reports, Order Manager, and Notification Center

San Francisco, California, US

• Led the Strava Premium team, an 8-person full-stack team responsible for over 90% of the company’s revenue
• Team introduced new functionality, executed tests to optimize revenue, and upgraded the billing pipeline
• Responsible for defining the hiring process for all mobile engineers across the company
• Spun up and led the Engineering Diversity Group, an engineering committee charged with improving diversity and belonging within the company

San Francisco, California, US

• Led the Strava Social team, responsible for in-app social functionality
• Leader of the Android Guild for all Android engineers at the company
• Maintained build and release operations for Android

San Francisco, California, US

• Designed and implemented many of the core features of the Strava Android application
• Designed and implemented the Strava Run fork of the Strava app (eventually folded back into the primary app)
• Introduced coding standards and a code review process, and responsible for release burndown

Mountain View, CA, US

• Designed and implemented scripting functionality for Google’s partner content crawler, TV Ads processing system, a dashboard and analytics platform for Google Newspaper partners, and added functionality for a Customer.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

Mountain View, CA, US

I wrote and helped out an on internal webapp to report on the wellness of ad backends, an application to add customers to programs, and a Customer Relationship Management system.

Bath, Maine, US

* Augmented the Lobster Tracker application* Taught users how to use MS Access* Repaired personal computers

* Designed and implemented web applications for non-profitsASP, MS SQL Server

Bs, Computer Science

High School Diploma, High School/Secondary Diplomas And Certificates