Matthew J. Martin — Staff Engineer / Tech Lead at Kyber

I'm a Staff Software Engineer with 15+ years experience. My background is in fintech and payments, but the recurring theme is building mission-critical systems in highly regulated environments where correctness and audibility aren't optional.

I've shipped AI-powered document extraction and classification pipelines in production, owned E2E architecture decisions as a technical lead, and scaled engineering team velocity from one release per quarter to two-plus per day.

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Objective

Fully in-office or hybrid role in NYC Metro Area in fast-paced, AI-native environment for an early to mid-stage, high-growth startup.

Summary of Qualifications

• Preference for early stage, high-pace startups
• Staff-level engineer and technical leader with 15+ years of E2E ownership across backend, frontend, data, and infrastructure — built and scaled mission-critical production systems at every stage from zero to profitable
• Deep practitioner of agentic AI coding workflows: daily Claude Code user; built and maintains an open-source AI-assisted job application pipeline as a live demonstration of agentic tooling applied to real workflows
• Built and led AI-powered document extraction, classification, and generation systems in regulated financial environments with audit trails, traceability, and enterprise-grade compliance requirements
• SOC 2 compliant systems engineering experience; HIPAA-adjacent regulated industry background; PCI-DSS compliance at payments scale
• Strong system design background: architected microservices, event-driven pipelines, and real-time systems handling 100K+ concurrent connections and 100+ transactions per second
• Proven ability to ship fast, prove the concept, then harden — drove engineering velocity from 1 release per quarter to 2+ releases per day
• Experience holding engineers accountable across teams: mentorship, code review standards, RFC processes, design patterns
• Experienced in enterprise software integration patterns (webhooks, Twilio, OpenAPI/Swagger, third-party API contracts)
• 9+ years Node.js & TypeScript; strong React & Next.js frontend; fluent across the full stack
• AWS power user: Lambda, S3, SES, ECS/ECR, KMS, SQS, SNS, API Gateway, CloudWatch
• OAuth2/OIDC/Auth0 and multi-tenant RBAC at enterprise scale
• Feature flag systems (LaunchDarkly) and CI/CD automation (GitHub Actions)
• Familiarity with legal contract structure and language; personal experience drafting, reviewing, and negotiating B2B agreements including vendor contracts and SaaS terms
• Extensive B2B SaaS background: built and maintained enterprise integrations, supported customer-facing workflows, and collaborated directly with enterprise clients on product requirements
• 15+ years in globally distributed, fast-moving startup environments; two-time founder

Professional Experience

Staff Software Engineer — LaunchGood, Inc.

Jan. 2024 to May 2026 | Detroit, MI (remote)

Crowdfunding SaaS platform processing 100+ transactions per second at peak volume, with over 1 million donors, supporting 8 currencies, operating in 250+ countries

• Built AI-powered document workflows for financial data extraction, automated classification, and intelligent on-call incident triage — LLM pipelines integrated directly into production systems
• Architected & led buildout of recurring payments system responsible for $13M monthly recurring payment volume; owned E2E: API contracts, data model, third-party integrations, monitoring, and incident response
• Designed & led implementation of real-time financial dashboard handling > 100K concurrent user connections with auditable time-series data and full traceability
• Championed AI-native development across the engineering team; introduced Claude Code and agentic coding workflows; mentored junior engineers on LLM-augmented delivery
• Remediated critical bottlenecks and error paths across core platform services, achieving 99.998% uptime; owned alerting, debugging, and fast-response incident workflows
• Defined API contracts and drove E2E architecture decisions as technical lead across multiple product lines
• Championed RFC process; authored and collaborated on platform-wide technical proposals; held engineers accountable to delivery and quality standards

Interim Head of Engineering (Contract) — LaunchGood, Inc.

Oct. 2021 to Dec. 2024 | Detroit, MI (remote)

• Owned all technical decisions E2E: backend, frontend, data, and infra — operated as de facto CTO for a 20-person engineering organization
• Dramatically increased engineering team velocity from 1 release every 3 months to 2+ releases per day through process, tooling, and cultural change
• Architected and led migration from monolith to microservices; established reusable patterns and interfaces across teams to eliminate reinvention
• Led hiring, onboarding, mentorship, and performance accountability; built standards for code review, testing, and system design
• Introduced CI/CD pipelines, containerized deployments (Docker, AWS ECS/ECR), and developer tooling through GitHub Actions automation
• Partnered with Product leadership to prioritize roadmap, protect engineering focus, and manage tradeoffs under deadline pressure
• Evaluated build-vs-buy decisions for key infrastructure components; reduced cost while maintaining reliability requirements

Key technologies: Nest.js, Next.js, React, Tailwind, Node.js, TypeScript, REST API, RabbitMQ, Redis, Postgres, Swagger/OpenAPI, Docker, AWS ECS/ECR/KMS/Lambda/S3/SQS/SNS, GitHub Actions, MySQL, OpenSearch, LaunchDarkly, Auth0, Twilio, Spreedly, Adyen

Founder & CEO — Blossom Labs, Inc. (BlossomFinance.com)

Jan. 2018 to Sep. 2021 | San Francisco, CA

Global, cross-border investment platform originally built on the Ethereum blockchain

• Founded and scaled end-to-end: product roadmap, hiring, architecture, and engineering execution
• Built compliance-aware financial transaction systems in a regulated cross-border investment environment
• Owned all technical decisions from zero to live product in 40+ countries

Key technologies: Node.js, Ngx, Mongo, MySQL, RabbitMQ, SASS (CSS), Heroku, Linux, Docker, Amazon AWS, REST API

Director of Engineering — Taro, Inc. (Acquired by EAT Club)

Aug. 2015 to Dec. 2018 | Mountain View, CA (hybrid)

Marketplace SaaS platform connecting chef entrepreneurs with customers across multiple cities

• Led E2E engineering across marketplace, scheduling, payments, and mobile — drove architecture from monolith to service-oriented design
• Managed and mentored engineering team; drove acquisition outcome

Key technologies: Node.js, React.js, Angular.js, Ionic, Mongo, RabbitMQ, SASS/CSS, Heroku, Firebase, Cloudinary, Algolia

Founder & CEO — Blossom Labs, Inc. (BlossomFinance.com)

Jul. 2014 to Aug. 2015 | San Francisco, CA

Global, cross-border investment platform originally built on the Ethereum blockchain

Key technologies: Node.js, Angular.js, Bootstrap CSS, Mongo, RabbitMQ, SASS/CSS, Heroku

Sr. Software Engineer, Team Lead — Monitise Americas, Inc.

Apr. 2013 to Jun. 2014 | San Rafael, CA (acquired by Finovate)

White-label digital banking mobile and tablet solutions for consumer banking industry

Key technologies: Cordova/Angular.js, Node.js, Grunt, Bower, LESS, REST API, Card Industry, NFC, Mobile-Wallet, Visa network, core banking

Sr. Frontend Engineer — Boku, Inc.

Sep. 2010 to Apr. 2013 | San Francisco, CA

Mobile payments platform processing transactions across major carrier networks globally

Key technologies: JS, jQuery, PHP, HTML, Java, MySQL, REST API, Card Industry, PCI, NFC, Mobile-Wallet, MasterCard network, mobile payments, telecom/sms/mms

Web Developer — Xoom, Inc.

Jan. 2010 to Sep. 2010 | San Francisco, CA

International money remittance helping families in the US send money back home overseas

Key technologies: JS, jQuery, CSS, HTML, Java

Software Applications Engineer — Logitech, Inc.

Jul. 2007 to Jan. 2010 | Mountain View, CA

Network music player "squeezebox" streams all the music you love to any room in your home

Key technologies: JS, PHP, MySQL, CSS, HTML, Perl

Education

Economics (Certificate of Completion) — George Mason University, 2013

Software Applications Programming — ITT Technical Institute, Liverpool, NY, 2003–2005

Links

• GitHub: github.com/matmar10
• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/matthewjosephmartin

About This Resume

I tailored this resume to the Staff Engineer / Tech Lead role at Kyber using an AI-assisted workflow I built. It cross-references my base resume and skills inventory against your specific job requirements to surface where I'm a strong fit. The workflow is open source: github.com/matmar10/job-applications