# Joseph Mattern > Senior Software Engineer @ Valence | AI Location: Charlotte, North Carolina, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/josephmattern Languages: Python, Javascript, SQL, Bash, Terraform, Typescript, Frameworks & Libraries: Django, FastApi, GraphQl, SQLAlchemy, DRF, Pandas, Git, Vue3, Node.js Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, AWS S3, Redis Cloud Technologies: AWS, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, GitLab Azure, DevTron, Graphana ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Valence Jan 2024 – Present | United States ### Principal Software Engineer @ Cognitive Space Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 ### Senior Backend Engineer @ Cognitive Space Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Remote Built from 0 to 1 and brought to market Cognitive's Flagship product "CNTIENT Earth", the google flights for satellite tasking, and imagery. Led a team of 9 engineers in developing this product. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Elite DNA Behavioral Health Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Fort Myers, Florida, United States Created and directed the Software engineering and data analytics department, producing a 147% ROI in the first year in strictly operational cost. Currently leading a team of developers, creating applications and experiences for our patients and employees. Developing the "Valet of mental health services" through event-driven microservice architecture to provide readily available, low-barrier-to-entry solutions to receiving care Implemented a robust cloud infrastructure to host our software and data ingestion pipelines, focused on maximum data security, high availability, and low latency. ### Algorithmic Trader @ Unknown Jan 2019 – Jan 2023 Developed a framework written in Python hosted and executed autonomously in an AWS cloud instantiation, that uses alpaca.markets API to trade paper and real stock based on custom algorithms influenced by multitudes of indicators and market research. Utilized the principals of web-scraping to aggregate and monitor market media (articles, patents, events, and research) and train machine learning models to further influence the behavior of the algorithms. Used historical market data to test and analyze algorithm performance before deployment before the deployment in real-time. ### Research Assistant @ Stony Brook University Nuclear Physics Group Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Stony Brook Designed a XYZ gantry system for the rapid prototyping of PCBs to be used in the TPEX experiment. Learned to speak and present effective data analysis, to govern further actions in our research. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Physics Stony Brook University Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 ### General Studies Farmingdale State College Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jm05 --- Source: https://flows.cv/josephmattern JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/josephmattern/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22