# Matt H.

> Engineer @ Phaze

Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/matth

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Phaze
Jan 2026 – Present

### Senior Software Engineer @ Forty5Park
Jan 2023 – Jan 2026 | New York City Metropolitan Area
• Directing expansion of AI-based API backend for B2B clients
• API asynchronously calculates data for tens of thousands of financial assets per user request
• Currently using FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, React, Aurora, and Redshift, all managed by Terraform

### Senior Software Engineer @ Apploi
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | New York City Metropolitan Area
• Designed architecture and developed new RESTful API for external user authentication
• New authentication API was backwards compatible with previous, legacy authentication API
• Developed using Python, Flask, MySQL, and Swagger, the API was scalable, modular, and fast

### Senior Software Engineer @ Daily Harvest
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | New York City Metropolitan Area
• Led project to digitize process of sending shipment instructions to partner warehouses
• Migrated from sending orders via email PDF attachments to using a modern API infrastructure
• Worked alongside partner warehouses to develop these APIs
• Developed using Python, Airflow, Flask and Swagger

### Senior Software Engineer @ Zipari
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | New York City Metropolitan Area
• Rebuilt the MVP Django API service to turn it into a modular, scalable, more Pythonic RESTful API
• Rewrote obsolete data models to a modern, relational SQL infrastructure
• Collaborated daily with the Front-End team to ensure they always had what they needed

### Senior Software Engineer @ RapidSOS
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | New York City Metropolitan Area
• Led a project to build a group of Python Flask micro-services to ensure fast, standards-compliant storage of 911 data
• Utilized a tech stack of AWS, Python, DynamoDB, Docker and Kubernetes
• The services communicated with callers and call centers for thousands of emergencies every day
• Built a Python XML library for parsing and building 911 standards-compliant data structures
• Developed a chatbot for emergency radios to request and receive information about callers

### Senior Software Engineer @ 7Park Data
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | New York City Metropolitan Area
• Led development of API and web app that serves a terabyte of data live to clients
• API utilizes intelligent caching to keep data fresh and response times low
• Utilized Amazon Pipeline to reload entire API dataset daily
• Managed datasets in a variety of databases (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, DynamoDB), each picked for the best fit for the API data they were serving
• Developed framework to quickly scrape metadata from third parties and link to local data (Google Play, Netflix, etc.)

### Senior Software Engineer @ Emma Mason
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015 | New York City Metropolitan Area
• Wrote initial models infrastructure for Python and Django-based CRM application
• Overhauled API system from scratch, using proper REST framework
• Replaced outdated jQuery interface with new AngularJS system
• Improved EDI (third party document exchange) system to support dozens more schemas
• Managed team of 3-5 developers for developing company-wide custom CRM application
• Led daily meetings with developers to properly distribute and manage assignments


## Education
### Telecommunications Engineering
New York Institute of Technology


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/matthewhochler

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Last updated: 2026-03-22