# Matt Berg

> Senior Software Engineer

Location: Oakland, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/mattberg

Highly motivated, versatile professional with 7 years of web application development experience and over 7 years of experience creating high quality 3D assets. Expertise in creating characters and props for movies, games and manufacturing. 
Proficient with Javascript, Typescript, HTML/CSS, Unix, Git, Java, Ruby, Python, C++, C#.
Salutatorian graduate from Ex'pression College for Visual Effects, academically trained in traditional arts at CCA.

https://github.com/mattberg88

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer III @ Credit Karma
Jan 2025 – Present | Oakland, California, United States
* LLM model integration with AI-driven financial assistance services
    - AI-driven tax refund planning and allocation processes
    - Financial advisor with LLM generated advice on improving user finances
* NextJS migration for various front end repositories
* Testing and integrating generative AI coding assistance
* On-call shifts with Pagerduty alerts, diagnostics and troubleshooting using Splunk and New Relic

### Software Engineer II @ Credit Karma
Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | Oakland, California, United States
Full Stack software engineer with a focus on typescript microservices and React front end applications
Highlights:
* Building Typescript microservices for internal applications with Express, GraphQL along  with a React and Apollo front end
* Integration with third party marketing applications such as Braze
* Working on-call weekly shifts with Pagerduty alerts, diagnosing service failures and warnings using New Relic and Splunk to query service logs
* Building recursive functions to transform deeply nested user facts data for internal marketing tools
* Flattening all attributes for credit card data types and refactoring/updating frontend apps to render flattened data. This allowed for much more streamlined development and much cleaner GQL queries.
tech: GQL, Apollo, React
* Creating a CMS style marketing email templating application using React
* CSV downloading capability with a diff viewing tool to compare various offer data
* Creating drag-and-drop node and edge based interactive tool to create event driven functions that trigger application functionalities depending on user events

### Frontend Engineer @ Credit Karma
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Oakland, California, United States
Frontend engineer focusing on React/Scala apps for the credit card offers team
Highlights:
* Adding CSV exporter and diff tool capabilities to easily export customizable CSV spreadsheets with credit card offer comparisons. This was previously a manual process for the credit card offers team and drastically reduced time spent inputing data from many hours to one click of a button
 tech: GQL, Apollo, React, react-csv, react 18 new query chaining capability

* Creating credit card variant editing capabilities to easily make changes to offer variants instead of deleting and rewriting offer variants. This also saved the credit card offers team many hours spent rewriting variants. 
tech: GQL, Apollo, React, some SCALA type changes

### Full Stack Engineer @ StageIt
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
Fullstack (mostly frontend) engineer with TS and JS React, nginx, Ruby on Rails, Lua

### Web Application Developer @ Fujisan Magazine Service
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Berkeley, California
Full Stack app development with React, Redux, Spring, Hibernate, MongoDB

### Character Sculptor @ Para Bellum Studios
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017
Sculpting character miniatures for injection molding

### 3D Artist @ Outward, Inc.
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | San Jose, California

### 3D Artist @ Zeepro
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015
Designing 3D models for 3D printing

### VFX Artist @ Collaborative Method
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014
Creating CG assets and compositing them into live plates, focused in 3D modeling, design, animation, and match-moving.


## Education
### Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) in Animation/Visual Effects
SAE Expression College
Jan 2011 – Jan 2013

### Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) in Sculpture
California College of the Arts
Jan 2007 – Jan 2011


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/matt-berg-23a67462

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Last updated: 2026-03-29