Personal details

Matthew L. - Remote data engineer

Matthew L.

Based in: πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ United States
Timezone: Central Time (US & Canada) (UTC-5)

About

I have 20+ years in the technology industry and have serviced the financial, government, insurance, healthcare, energy, startup/technology, and retail sectors ranging from data architecture, software engineering, R&D, DevOps, management, strategic consulting, patented applications, and high-value revenue-generating applications & architecture. I hold patents in secured distributed messaging architecture, contribute to numerous open-source projects, and have conducted pioneering research in resilient cloud architectures based on fault-tolerant rough-set grammars.

I hold patents in secure distributed messaging architecture, contribute to numerous open-source projects, and have conducted pioneering research in resilient cloud architectures based on fault-tolerant rough-set grammars.

● High-Performance Computing (HPC)

● Microservices Architecture

● Multi-Agent Distributed Computation

● Highly scalable Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) ● Predictive Big Data Analytics

● Consensus Algorithm Design

● High-Value Research & Development

● Cloud Architecture and Implementation

● DevOps and Security Penetration Testing

● System Virtualization and Containerization

● Data Center Relocations ● Security Audits ● Server Performance Management ● Capacity and Deployment Planning ● Management ● Storage Management

● Network Infrastructure Design and Implementation

Work Experience

CTO/Full-Stack Dev/SecDevOps/Lead Engineer
Notable Organizations Served | Jan 2006 - Present
HTML/CSS
PHP
Python
Java
SQL
Node.js
Azure
Big Data
React
Data Science
Google Cloud Platform
JavaScript
Data analytics
Go
AWS
  • Fidelity (Saifr RegTech) - Cloud Infrastructure and Software Engineer
  • Shell - Cloud DevOps Engineer/Architect
  • UTA (United Talent Agency) - Cloud DevOps Engineer/Architect
  • Intrusion - Software Engineer/DevOps
  • TSI - Software Engineer
  • Apple – Senior DevOps Engineer/Architect
  • Avant Credit – Senior DevOps Engineer/Director of Operations
  • Blue Cross Blue Shield – Senior Cloud Security Architect
  • Cabelas – Systems Engineer/Architect
  • Cleversafe – Director of Information Technology
  • DARPA – Researcher/Developer/Architect
  • First Data – Senior Infrastructure Architect
  • FedEx - AutoML (Automated Machine Learning) Architect/DataOps
  • Houston Energy – Lead Solutions Architect
  • Les Schwab - Senior Solutions Architect/Lead DevOps Engineer

Summary of all work experiences:

  • Planet Payment – Architect/Lead Developer
  • QuikOrder/Pizza Hut – Developer/Architect/DevOps/Researcher/Patents
  • Reliable Parts – Lead Developer/Architect
  • Royal Caribbean – Senior Solutions Architect/Lead DevOps Engineer
  • Target – Architect/ Lead Engineer
  • UpWork – Over 50+ software development POC/MVP projects for various startups and enterprise clients
  • CleanAir - Software Engineer/Architect (ReactJs+.Net Serverless Microservices)
  • Sunoco - Software Engineer ~ JAMStack (Reactjs+Wordpress headless)
  • Supercuts Franchisees - Software Engineer ~ Financial Dashboards (Python/Flask + Bootstrap)
  • USDA - Software/Data Engineer ~ Tripal Genomics Database (Drupal + PHP)
  • Multiple Food Industry Clients ~ Software Engineer (Python//Dash/Javascript)
  • Various MVPs - Python, Javascript, Go, Elixir, .Net
  • Verio – Senior Security Engineer
  • Zebra – Architect/Systems Engineer
Full-Stack Dev / SecDevOps Lead Engineer
Shell | Dec 2022 - Dec 2023
Python
Leadership
Apache Kafka
Terraform
DevSecOps
AWS

● Developed Airflow workflows utilizing Python that connected to managed Kafak service running on AWS as a data grid for microservices

● Developed Terraform scripts for microservices and EKS modules that integrated ping federated authentication and GitHub Actions workflows deployed by ArgoCD

● Developed load forecasting data analytics pipelines processed through Python lambdas microservices, Managed Kafka, AWS EMR, and outputted to Apache Druid.

● Developed Terraform scripts for supporting load forecasting infrastructure, which consisted of Lamdbas microservices, Kafka, EMR, and Druid cluster.

● Was a lead contractor/architect in designing scalable DataOps workflows and in assisting Shell employees with integration issues and familiarity with new technologies and methodologies

Payment Systems: I have worked with Plaid, Stripe, Payoneer, Square, Amazon, Moov, and many blockchain/DeFi projects. Also well versed in regulatory authorities such as in FINRA

Education

The University of Colorado
Doctor's degree・Computer Science
Jan 1998 - Jan 2006