Matthew Nichols Email & Phone Number

Menlo Park, California, Us

I am the head of engineering for our AI property tech startup, reporting directly to the CEO. I lead development of our suite of data and AI-driven B2B and B2C products that assess the condition and value of homes, empowering homeowners and investors to make informed financial decisions and build wealth.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Led the vision and delivery of the travel industry’s leading commerce tax platform, overseeing the development of multi-tenant services that scale to manage millions of requests per second while ensuring compliance with global tax regulations. This platform supports the entire transaction lifecycle–from shopping and booking to invoicing, accounting, filing, and reporting.Responsibilities & Accomplishments:• Leading a team of 70 software engineers, program managers, and directors• Collaborated with key stakeholders including the SVP of Tax, CFO of Expedia Services, and VPs of engineering and product, to design an architecture and roadmap maximizing ROI and advancing our strategy to establish a foundational platform for the travel industry• Fostered innovation and alignment with enterprise architecture principles, driving technology adoption such as extensible multi-tenant APIs, data streams, real-time compute, and data lakes. Leveraged a scalable foundation of Apache Spark, Kubernetes, Kafka, gRPC, OpenAPI & CI/CD

Seattle, Wa, Us

Led the business intelligence and data warehouse engineering organization for the Hotwire brand, and later the Booking Data Engineering group, stewards of all of Expedia's sales data. Built the systems that transform events into actionable intelligence, including core booking data and financial reporting.Responsibilities & Accomplishments:• Responsible for global team of 35 engineers, software architects, and engineering managers with employees in Bellevue, San Francisco, Guadalajara, and Delhi• Oversaw the enterprise transformation from classic Oracle batch ETL processing to a flexible streaming data stack running at scale in the cloud, integrating technologies including Kafka, Spark, Storm, AWS EMR, Hive, and Presto• Transformed a classic BI and data warehouse development organization to an agile development group building a real-time data platform in AWS. Our tech stack includes Apache Spark, AWS Lambda, ECS, Kinesis, Firehose, and Aurora, as well as a legacy Teradata platform• Managed development of the Fulfillment Management System, a transactional service responsible for Expedia’s supplier purchase order for every customer booking. Built with a cloud-native microservice architecture using ECS, DynamoDB, AWS Lambda, and Elasticsearch

Seattle, Wa, Us

Set the strategic direction and managed the backlog for both our API management and lodging analytics data platforms, including competitive intelligence, hotel property, and inventory analysis capabilities.Responsibilities & Accomplishments:• Relied on by global internal community of over 100 analysts and executives to set the direction of our lodging data platform• Conceived of and led a large investment to transition to self-service and real-time streaming data platforms. Based on streaming data ingestion through APIs with a Hadoop/HBase backend, this was a bold departure from our legacy systems, enabling timely and comprehensive analytics• Built business case, led requirements elicitation, and organized vendor evaluation for a seven-figure investment in an API management platform, now a core part of Expedia’s technology stack• Provided monthly in-person updates to CEO Dara Khosrowshahi and chief product officer on product status; hosted semiannual full-day planning meetings for diverse stakeholder set including organization VPs, analytics, and engineering directors; while maintaining ongoing collaboration with user communities in Geneva, London, Brisbane, and Bellevue

Seattle, Wa, Us

Managed the Expedia Web Services (partner API) test team, then promoted to oversee all development of our fraud detection and transactional tax calculation systems.Responsibilities & Accomplishments:• Oversaw an organization that grew to 25 engineers and 2 development managers in Bellevue and Minsk. Focused on hiring top talent and supporting the personal development of employees• Built a new development team from scratch to overhaul our transaction tax system, managed the technical evaluation of Vertex and Thomson Reuters enterprise tax engines, and directed building of a new tax platform ensuring Expedia’s compliance in a challenging regulatory environment• Oversaw, as product owner, a successful Continuous Delivery pilot program (utilizing Jenkins), leading to broad adoption for Expedia’s transaction and payments platform• Served as agile product owner for the entire suite of Expedia Web Services (EWS), set product direction for travel shopping services used by major partners including Google and Kayak

Seattle, Wa, Us

Developed test frameworks for backend services, with a focus on API and service quality.Responsibilities & Accomplishments:• Contributed throughout the development cycle: defining the test approach and plan, implementing Java test automation, scheduling and resource allocation, and improving product specifications• Led automated test strategy of Expedia Web Services, guiding the team that ensured the quality of the API platform that today powers a large portion of the company's shopping traffic.

Champaign, Il, Us

I split time between the senior-level Computer Architecture course, and the freshman-level Intro to Computing Systems (which includes everything from transistors to basic C programming). The most personally rewarding parts were mentoring small groups on their final computer architecture project (designing a full microprocessor, culminating in a performance competition), and giving guest lectures to over 100 students. I served as head TA, amongst a group of 10, for my final 2 semesters.

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I created software tools for the architecture group of a start-up designing highly-parallel physics processors which accelerate physics calculations for games. The company was eventually bought by Nvidia.During the summer of my internship, our prototype units included the capability to generate a trace of every machine instruction executed by the processor while running our physics software. I built a C++ program to analyze these traces , which I used to create detailed analyses of processor utilization and potential performance benefits of proposed architectural modifications. This allowed us to identify the improvements which would have the biggest impact in future versions of our hardware.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Ms, Electrical And Computer Engineering

Bs, Electrical Engineering