# Matthew Brown > Founding Engineer at Delv Location: Oakland, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/matthewbrown1 I have been writing code for a long time now and I love the constant challenges it brings and the community around it. I started my career as an Electrical Engineer but have since transitioned to more web and mobile development. I've recently found frontend architecture to be very fascinating and I currently work a lot with React/Redux and Webpack. I also really enjoy working on the backend especially when it comes to dealing scaling solutions and efficient data and traffic management. Besides software engineering I'm also an avid ultimate frisbee player, backpacker and I recently picked up climbing which I can't get enough of. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ DELV (formerly Element Finance) Jan 2020 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area Founding team member at Element Finance. We are a small team working to bring exciting new primitives to the DeFi space including fixed yield interest on yield bearing assets. I'm diving headfirst into this space and learning more about DeFi everyday. I'm currently working across our stack to develop our smart contract protocol in Solidity and integrating with other leading protocols including Balancer and Yearn. I'm also bringing my years web development experience to build out Element's decentralized app with React and Typescript. The paradigm shift to working with blockchain technologies has given me an entirely new way look at the future of the web and I couldn't be more excited to be involved in this rapidly evolving space. ### Software Engineer @ UrbanFootprint Jan 2016 – Jan 2020 | Berkeley, California I've been working at Calthorpe Analytics mainly as a front-end engineer. We've been building an application that's poised to revolutionize the urban planning industry and are starting to see some exciting developments. I joined the team when the product was about 3 months into development and have had an amazing time working with the team to bring our application, UrbanFootprint, to fruition. It is a map centric application that is data intensive and has had some very interesting engineering and design challenges. We've chosen great technologies to work with including Mapbox, React, Redux, RxJS and Webpack to deliver a fast and responsive Universal Single Page Application. I am a huge proponent of the technologies that we've chosen thus far and am excited to see how we add to our stack to handle growing complexity of data that we introduce to the application. Our data science and backend team uses and combination of Python, PostGIS, Go and other technologies to analyze large geospatial datasets as users interact with a map in real time. We are always looking for talented developers so please feel free to contact me if you find this space interesting. Thanks! ### Full Stack Software Engineer @ Workiva Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Greater Denver Area ### Full Stack Software Engineer @ Hack Reactor Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 Hack Reactor is a 12 week coding immersive. Students learn everything from the fundamentals of javascript to the newest and most popular frameworks including Backbone.js, AngularJS and more. The overall curriculum includes HTML, CSS, Javascript, JQuery, D3, Backbone, Angular, Node, Express, mySQL, MongoDB among other things. During my tenure at Hack Reactor I was involved with several interesting projects including Ripple, Headcount and Live. I specialized in Angular which I enjoy very much and hope to use in the future. I'm also very enthused about working with Backbone, React, D3 and serverside code bases. ### Engineer @ Los Alamos National Laboratory Jan 2011 – Jan 2014 | Los Alamos, NM Work Description Most of the work I did involved FPGA programming. I worked with projects in VHDL, Verilog and System Generator. I have experimented with, though do not actively used SystemC and SystemVerilog. I used the Xilinx Tool Suite for most projects and have worked with microblaze microprocessor, used the Platform Studio to integrate systems and Chipscope to simulate, analyze and debug designs. I also currently do a lot of work with the uTCA backplace using COTS hardware. My other experience at the lab includes robotics, RF communication and microprocessor development. History My first internship at LANL the summer of 2010 where I had my first real introduction the VHDL. I worked on a fast FPGA-GPU architecture under Zach Baker. I returned the following summer to implement a robotics project myself and three others worked on at NMT. I started working full time at LANL January of 2012 and became a part of the RULLI team. Since then the RULLI XS project has been my primary project. I have picked up several others along the way listed below. ## Education ### Computer Software Engineering Hack Reactor Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 ### Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology Jan 2008 – Jan 2012 ### International Baccalaureate Degree Lakewood High School Jan 1999 – Jan 2003 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mattfdbrown - Website: https://element.fi --- Source: https://flows.cv/matthewbrown1 JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/matthewbrown1/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22