Matthew Joseph Martin, Staff Software Engineer

Specialized in building products for payments, fintech, & highly regulated environments at scale.

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Summary of Qualifications

• 20 years total in software across engineering & product
• 15+ years full stack software development with deep backend focus, including 9+ years building server-side systems with Node.js & TypeScript
• 10+ years experience in payments/fintech industry, including credit card processing & multi-currency operations + finance/investment industry
• 5+ years modern frontend with React, Next.js, and Tailwind; over 15+ years total frontend experience
• Strong DB fundamentals: SQL (Postgres & MySQL), NoSQL (MongoDB), & caching (Redis); data modeling across high-volume transactional and large analytical workloads
• Experience with distributed & event-driven architectures (RabbitMQ, STOMP, Protobuf)
• Proficient in Docker containerization and Kubernetes orchestration; experience with AWS (ECS/ECR/KMS), GCP, and Alibaba Cloud
• Champion of TDD practices at all levels of the stack, especially API & frontend
• Experience with websockets & server-sent events (SSE)
• CI/CD automation with GitHub Actions/Workflows, including building custom ones
• 5+ years experience with PHP & 3+ years Java
• 15+ years experience working remote/hybrid/globally distributed team
• Strong product/UX sense; some experience as PM & UX designer

Professional Experience

Staff Software Engineer — LaunchGood, Inc.

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

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

• Architected & led buildout of recurring payments system responsible for $13M monthly recurring payment volume
• Designed & led implementation of mission-critical, customer-facing real-time financial dashboard handling > 100K concurrent user connections with auditable time-series data
• Championed AI-native development & on-call remediation workflows; mentored & trained more junior team members
• Built and maintained mission-critical integrations with third-party payment services
• Remediated critical system bottlenecks and error paths, directly contributing to reduction in P0 escalations achieving 99.998% uptime
• Defined API contracts and service architecture decisions as technical lead, influencing platform-wide technical direction
• Championed RFC process; authored RFCs related to financial processing pipeline & collaborated on others to refine RFCs related to other areas of the platform
• Optimized backend performance for high-throughput, data-intensive payment processing operations

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

Oct. 2021 to Dec. 2023 | Detroit, MI (remote)

• Dramatically increased engineering team velocity from 1 release every 3 months, to average of 2+ releases per day
• Conceived, architected, and led shift towards modern technology stack and microservices architecture
• Transitioned team to product pods model & dramatically accelerated product development
• Evaluated build-vs-buy options for key infrastructure pieces, reduced cost while improving business operations through integration of key vendors
• Drove engineering excellence: established code review practices, design patterns, and testing standards across the team
• Introduced CI/CD pipelines and developer experience through GitHub Actions automation and containerized deployments (Docker, AWS ECS/ECR)
• Began transition from outsourced engineering team to internal team
• Contributed end-to-end features spanning backend APIs (Nest.js) and frontend (Next.js, React, Tailwind)

Key technologies: Nest.js, Next.js, React, Tailwind, Node.js, TypeScript, REST API, RabbitMQ, Redis, Postgres, Swagger/OpenAPI, Docker, AWS ECS/ECR/KMS, GitHub Actions, MySQL, PHP, OpenSearch, Spreedly, Adyen, Currency Cloud, Finclusive

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

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

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

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

Marketplace of diverse, ethnic foods cooked by chef entrepreneurs not found in restaurants

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, MySQL, Perl

Education

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

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

Links

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