# Mary Matthews > Engineering Manager at Pave Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/marymatthews Creating software feeds my natural desire to make a positive impact on the world around me. I love diving into new challenges, exploring user needs and interactions, and identifying opportunities to leverage creative technology solutions. Working across the stack gives me the opportunity to take a project from an idea to a tool that, at scale, I can put in the hands of thousands of users, empowering them to better achieve their personal and business goals. Technical skills: Go, GraphQL, React, JavaScript, HTML, Node/Express, Terraform, Sanctuary.js, Typescript, LaunchDarkly, Honeycomb, React Testing Library/Jest, AWS: DynamoDB, RDS SQL, API Gateway, Lambda, Cognito, S3, Cloudfront, Cloudwatch ## Work Experience ### Engineering Manager, Market Data @ Pave Jan 2024 – Present We're hiring! See our open roles here: https://grnh.se/cb172e425us ### Software Engineer @ Pave Jan 2021 – Present - Develop and maintain products that deliver compensation survey data and insights—generated by the Pave data science team—to customers through the Market Data product and API. - Collaborate closely with upstream and downstream engineering teams to support additional workflow tools such as Market Pricing, Pave’s compensation band management product. Tech stack includes React, Node.js, Prisma/MySQL, and Bigtable. - Drive improvements in application design patterns and team processes to support scaling the Market Data product and organization, as product complexity increases and the customer base expands into the enterprise segment. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Formation Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, California, United States ➤ Work on services across Formation's distributed systems, powering the offer build and automation platform ➤ Collaborate with product and cross-functional teams to build services that support front end UIs and backend data science offer build and optimization systems ➤ Technologies: Go, GraphQL, DynamoDB, RDS, Lambda, API Gateway ### Software Engineer @ Formation Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco ➤ Worked on the UI that puts our tools in the hands of marketing professionals at Fortune 500 companies and allows them to send highly relevant offers that meet their customers where they are now. ➤ Technologies: JavaScript, React, GraphQL, Node, Sanctuary.js, TypeScript, API Gateway, Cloudfront Learn more at https://formation.ai/ We're growing -- check out our open roles and feel free to reach out if you have any questions! https://jobs.lever.co/formation?lever-via=x1lKzQ-xsF ### Executive Director @ 504ward Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Greater New Orleans Area As Executive Director, I led a city-wide strategy, working closely with economic development partners in the public and private sectors, to attract and retain young professional talent in New Orleans. ➤ Connected over 15,000 members each year to key people and organizations in the city through curated newsletters and experiences -- including hiring, networking, community engagement and leadership events ➤ Designed and produced events ranging in size from 20 to 800 people ➤ Cultivated relationships with over 200 business and civic leaders who served as volunteer professional mentors each year ➤ Led a team of 3, including an event planner, writer, and intern, and managed process of recruiting, hiring and on-boarding replacement Executive Director before completing my tenure ➤ Guided organization through a transition from one source of funding to a sustainable long-term model of diversified resources ➤ Secured more than 15 foundational grants and corporate sponsors ➤ Increased fundraising event profits by 50% over previous year ➤ Led design of Economic Development Ambassadorship Program to introduce rising and experienced professional across sectors to the work of growing and diversifying the New Orleans economy -- managed program through 4 successful cohorts -- alumni network now numbers over 100 graduates ➤ Built partnerships with career services and alumni departments at 10 universities across the Greater New Orleans region in an effort to better retain locally grown talent ### Marketing and Development Coordinator @ Alliance Française de La Nouvelle-Orléans Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | New Orleans ➤ Implemented communications/marketing strategies that resulted in 50% increase in funds raised and doubling of membership ➤ Successfully applied for and received nonprofit’s first educational grant funding, allowing for expanded children’s programs and increased financial sustainability ➤ Created and managed internship program, strengthening ties with university partners and increasing staff support for major annual events ➤ Hosted and produced bilingual radio show and podcast ### Sustainability Consultant @ LifeCity Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | New Orleans ➤ Advised LifeCity business members on opportunities to increase their bottom line while improving their environmental and social impact ➤ Launched Green School membership group, expanding the startup into a new industry vertical ### Intern @ United Nations ESCAP Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Bangkok, Thailand ➤ Reported on trade facilitation projects ➤ Wrote contributions to the annual report on Trade and Investment in the Asia-Pacific ➤ Analyzed how regional integration, labor migration and remittance policies contributed to economic and community development in the region ### Intern @ United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Geneva ➤ Spearheaded communications for the parliamentarian advisory group ➤ Started a monthly newsletter ➤ Developed content for UNISDR website ➤ Planned advisory group conference in Geneva ➤ Continued free-lance editing for my internship supervisor post-internship ## Education ### Hack Reactor Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 ### Masters: International Development Université Grenoble Alpes Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 ### Bachelor of Arts - BA in International Relations, French and Spanish The University of the South Jan 2007 – Jan 2011 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/marypmatthews --- Source: https://flows.cv/marymatthews JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/marymatthews/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-29