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As a Staff Software Engineer with 10 years of progressive and diverse experience, I am a resourceful professional skilled in providing support and leadership within highly complex organizational structures. Throughout my career, I have consistently demonstrated a commitment to excellence, earning recognition as one of the top performers on every team I've been a part of. I take pride in mentoring others and leading by example, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and teamwork. With a track record of delivering large-scale applications, I possess a keen ability to strategically plan, execute, and lead enterprise-wide technology initiatives that align with business goals and enhance productivity. My expertise extends across a range of technologies, reflecting my versatility and adaptability in the ever-evolving field of software development. Beyond my professional accomplishments, I am a dedicated family person, happily married with two sons, and I am the fourth of eight siblings. In addition to my civilian career, I have served as a Captain in the Army Reserves for 9 years, further honing my leadership and organizational skills. With a strong foundation in software development, a history of leadership and mentorship, and a dedication to continuous improvement, I am excited to contribute my expertise to the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead. Let's connect and explore how we can collaborate to drive innovation and success in the world of software engineering.…As a Staff Software Engineer with 10 years of progressive and diverse experience, I am a resourceful professional skilled in providing support and leadership within highly complex organizational structures. Throughout my career, I have consistently demonstrated a commitment to excellence, earning recognition as one of the top performers on every team I've been a part of. I take pride in mentoring others and leading by example, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and teamwork. With a track record of delivering large-scale applications, I possess a keen ability to strategically plan, execute, and lead enterprise-wide technology initiatives that align with business goals and enhance productivity. My expertise extends across a range of technologies, reflecting my versatility and adaptability in the ever-evolving field of software development. Beyond my professional accomplishments, I am a dedicated family person, happily married with two sons, and I am the fourth of eight siblings. In addition to my civilian career, I have served as a Captain in the Army Reserves for 9 years, further honing my leadership and organizational skills. With a strong foundation in software development, a history of leadership and mentorship, and a dedication to continuous improvement, I am excited to contribute my expertise to the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead. Let's connect and explore how we can collaborate to drive innovation and success in the world of software engineering.

Matthew Ward

Full Stack Developer, Back-End Developer, Front-End Developer, +2

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As a Staff Software Engineer with 10 years of progressive and diverse experience, I am a resourceful professional skilled in providing support and leadership within highly complex organizational structures. Throughout my career, I have consistently demonstrated a commitment to excellence, earning recognition as one of the top performers on every team I've been a part of. I take pride in mentoring others and leading by example, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and teamwork. With a track record of delivering large-scale applications, I possess a keen ability to strategically plan, execute, and lead enterprise-wide technology initiatives that align with business goals and enhance productivity. My expertise extends across a range of technologies, reflecting my versatility and adaptability in the ever-evolving field of software development. Beyond my professional accomplishments, I am a dedicated family person, happily married with two sons, and I am the fourth of eight siblings. In addition to my civilian career, I have served as a Captain in the Army Reserves for 9 years, further honing my leadership and organizational skills. With a strong foundation in software development, a history of leadership and mentorship, and a dedication to continuous improvement, I am excited to contribute my expertise to the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead. Let's connect and explore how we can collaborate to drive innovation and success in the world of software engineering.…As a Staff Software Engineer with 10 years of progressive and diverse experience, I am a resourceful professional skilled in providing support and leadership within highly complex organizational structures. Throughout my career, I have consistently demonstrated a commitment to excellence, earning recognition as one of the top performers on every team I've been a part of. I take pride in mentoring others and leading by example, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and teamwork. With a track record of delivering large-scale applications, I possess a keen ability to strategically plan, execute, and lead enterprise-wide technology initiatives that align with business goals and enhance productivity. My expertise extends across a range of technologies, reflecting my versatility and adaptability in the ever-evolving field of software development. Beyond my professional accomplishments, I am a dedicated family person, happily married with two sons, and I am the fourth of eight siblings. In addition to my civilian career, I have served as a Captain in the Army Reserves for 9 years, further honing my leadership and organizational skills. With a strong foundation in software development, a history of leadership and mentorship, and a dedication to continuous improvement, I am excited to contribute my expertise to the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead. Let's connect and explore how we can collaborate to drive innovation and success in the world of software engineering.

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As a Staff Software Engineer with 10 years of progressive and diverse experience, I am a resourceful professional skilled in providing support and leadership within highly complex organizational structures. Throughout my career, I have consistently demonstrated a commitment to excellence, earning recognition as one of the top performers on every team I’ve been a part of. I take pride in mentoring others and leading by example, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and teamwork.

With a track record of delivering large-scale applications, I possess a keen ability to strategically plan, execute, and lead enterprise-wide technology initiatives that align with business goals and enhance productivity. My expertise extends across a range of technologies, reflecting my versatility and adaptability in the ever-evolving field of software development.

Beyond my professional accomplishments, I am a dedicated family person, happily married with two sons, and I am the fourth of eight siblings. In addition to my civilian career, I have served as a Captain in the Army Reserves for 9 years, further honing my leadership and organizational skills.

With a strong foundation in software development, a history of leadership and mentorship, and a dedication to continuous improvement, I am excited to contribute my expertise to the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead. Let’s connect and explore how we can collaborate to drive innovation and success in the world of software engineering.

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Work Experience

Staff Software Engineer at Willow Tree

January 1, 2022 - Present

Led architecture and engineering for a $5M/year real-time tech-support tool leveraging LLMs, retrieval augmentation (RAG) and live audio transcription to deliver real-time recommendations to agents. Designed and replaced a critical middleware service supporting POS devices nationwide, improving reliability and adding customer metrics tracking while reducing costs by over $10,000 per month. Proposed and implemented data storage/architecture changes to cut cloud costs by over $50,000 per month. Led the creation of a premium subscription plan with industry-unique payment features, generating additional revenue. Built a Google BigQuery data lake for the SEO team to daily update client data, saving ~ $3,000/month in wasted time. Led the rewrite of a revenue-pipeline forecast in Python using GCP services, cutting execution time from 15 minutes to 20 seconds. Drove backend development of a new accessible service portal enabling nationwide expansion. Mentored multiple engineers with 1:1s, sett

Senior Software Engineer at PraxiPower

December 1, 2016 - January 1, 2022

Developed accounting software, payment-processing applications, SMS software, and custom database-driven tools to handle multi-million-dollar transactions annually. Played a key role designing and implementing numerous client-facing web apps and new services for PraxiSchool's software. Built RESTful APIs in PHP for PraxiSchool Mobile and PHP scripts to streamline CSV onboarding. Led a small team to deliver PraxiSchool Mobile while managing multiple projects, consistently meeting goals. Pioneered industry integration by delivering a Google Classroom Web-App with bidirectional integration. Improved revenue by roughly $10k/month through optimizing payment processing with a new provider (Heartland).

Co-Founder / Developer at Trading Edge

December 1, 2020 - November 1, 2021

Spearheaded development of a cutting-edge, fully automated stock-trading program using Python and API integrations for stock and crypto data; implemented a robust algorithm capable of outperforming the S&P 500 while minimizing risk; designed a high-impact commercial strategy and commercialization plan.

Volunteer Software Engineer at Freedom House Church

October 1, 2022 - Present

Developed a script that hooks into the church's software platform to auto-create Pastoral Care Requests from form submissions, saving significant staff time. Streamlined workflows by troubleshooting and resolving software issues, improving overall operations, and collaborating with staff to enhance software functionality.

Agile Java Developer (Intern) at Premier Inc

June 1, 2014 - August 1, 2014

Developed and implemented features to help customers identify and order medical supplies. Contributed to building new software features and applications.