Matt Middlesworth Email & Phone Number

Burbank, Ca, Us

Leading the Partner Experience Engineering team for our streaming B2B integration journey platform. This channel is currently the largest segment of Disney+ subscribers.- Primary influencer after years of conversations to prioritize our largest application conversion to replace legacy 3rd party systems in our stack. Led team to launch in-house documentation replacing Confluence. In-house support ticket replacing Service Desk and in house AuthN/AuthZ replacing ADFS in progress.- leading session analytics to be adopted within the Commerce, Growth and Identity organization which is internal and consumer facing products.- led the vision for our team and stakeholders to become more data driven by leading the initiative to ETL into a Snowflake data warehouse and have analytics in Looker. Built our first dashboards and onboarded stakeholders.

New York, Ny, Us

Leading the Partner Experience Engineering Team for Disney+. It’s a fullstack team that supports a streamlined experience for partners and internal users around approvals, integration and certification to run Disney+ on custom devices. This channel contributes a significant number of subscribers to Disney+- Led the transition to an agile & iterative tech team culture.- Led in bringing our technology team closer around collaborating from ideation to delivery.- Improved engineering happiness, ownership, engagement & growth by implementing engineering leads and career ladder focused growth plans.- Proposed, convinced tech team and driving to get all internal approvals (1 more left) to implement Session playback analytics for customer experience & front-end monitoring.

San Francisco, California, Us

Member of our EPD and Engineering leadership groupsLeading the Automation & Document Intelligence domain encompassing AI, Data and Services to automate various capabilities of our platform. This includes automatically creating an eSignable document and performing quality control on transactional documents. (4 Teams)Previously leading the Settlement & Consumer (Closings Platform), Secure Experiences (Enterprise Features) and Title Management (New Product) teams$150M Series D - $1.5B valuation (May 2021) #28 on Y Combinator's top company list https://www.ycombinator.com/topcompanies/

San Francisco, California, Us

Leading the Settlement and Product Security teams- Implemented the first lead engineer role where any level engineer had the opportunity to lead various team projects from start to finish, growing ownership, engagement and happiness of the team by a significant amount.- Led transition to launching targeted beta releases, decreasing time to delivery and paving the way for future iterative releases before general availability.- Championed the organizational approval among Product, Design and Engineering to use Ant Design UI library instead of custom built React components, saving the front-end engineers days to weeks of work per component.- Implemented team architectural reviews that reduced the time for architectural approval from 3+ weeks to 1 week.- Helped grow the engineering organization from 30 to 90 engineers over 6 months and set safety nets to protect engineers during this intense time.Y Combinator W14, $25M Series B (Nov 2019) & $60M Series C (Oct 2020).

Napa, California, Us

- Launched a $20M e-commerce platform built and supported with 1/10th the team size of other e-commerce ventures of our chairmen.- Architected, maintained and led team that built a proprietary distributed e-commerce platform (https://www.onehopewine.com) that captures 70% of the company’s revenue at > $1.3M/mo with a 99.995% uptime, ~100 ms of real-time application response performance using $600/mo of AWS EC2 infrastructure. - Created and empowered company’s first ever product, UX and full-stack engineering teams. Attracted a 40% female represented engineering team and grew the tech team by 2.5x in 2017 to 10 with diverse backgrounds.- Developed and architected a full stack JavaScript e-commerce platform with React.JS, Relay Modern and stateless highly available Node.JS GraphQL API Gateway and Node.JS Microservices on Express REST APIs utilizing multi-region Cassandra clusters.- Solely built the initial production release of our Node.JS Microservices back-end and database architecture that scaled to > $20M/yr of transactional volume and a real-time fetch time of 4ms on T3 medium AWS hardware- Personally built and maintained a 99.995% uptime on our elastically scalable, distributed AWS production infrastructure with a no single point of failure architecture.

- Co-founded an internet startup, successfully completed its product market validation with customer companies and then started fundraising to build a team.- Conceived and solely developed an enterprise-class, cloud-based platform as a service product. Built entire stack, including database (PostgreSQL), server logic (Glassfish, Java8) and client logic (web browser, JavaScript, WebSockets).- Built an 18-month company roadmap with a financial model, corporate strategy, and development, resource and product launch plans. - Verified initial market traction by operating a private beta with multiple customers for market validation, endorsements and feedback

-Built a VC pitch deck that was used to raise a round of seed funding and attract advisory board.-Attracted 3 advisory board members, including former VPs at HP and BroadVision and a professor at Harvard Business School.-Solely built entire stack for a fully functioning alpha product using ASP.NET (C#) server-generated front-end with PostgreSQL back-end.-Implemented a proprietary back-end storage architecture that enables flexible information customization and relationships with advanced historical data capabilities.-Performed front-end optimizations of prototype with emerging technologies such as HTML5, CSS3 and jQuery to create advanced UI/UX concepts for a next-generation information platform.-Worked with various freelance projects using different technologies.

Fremont, Ca, Us

-Team lead on a $2M SaaS and on-premise enterprise platform.-Directed all product engineering from design to release and served as primary technical liaison for all customers, including two Fortune 100 companies (Cisco and Caterpillar) with 200+ active manager type users.-Hired, mentored and managed local senior team alongside 2 out-sourced (India) development teams with a total member count of 15.-Served as technical architect for the product, including transitioning from ASP to ASP.NET and allowing on-premise and SaaS release cycles within an agile process.-Was involved in all facets of the company and reported directly to the CEO.

Fremont, Ca, Us

-Development project leader and release manager for on-premise and cloud-based SaaS solution.-Senior architect including UI front-end design, database design, and systems and web architecture using Visual Basic 6.0, ASP, ASP.NET technology, JavaScript and MS SQL Server.-Hired and trained company's first out-sourced (India) team consisting of a technical manager, developers and testers. Managed and improved the effectiveness of out-sourced and local software development teams-Functioned as primary technical liaison for users at all client companies (including Cisco Systems and Cubic Corporation).

Aerospace Engineering

Diploma