# Matthew F.

> Software Engineer

Location: Portland, Oregon, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/matthewf

## Work Experience
### Engineer IV @ The College Board
Jan 2026 – Present | Portland, OR

### Senior Software Engineer @ HMH
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | Portland, Oregon
• Maintained and debugged data quality issues for a major data pipeline based on dbt, Fivetran, and Snowflake.
• Implemented new features for a TypeScript, Next.js front-end web application.
• Designed and implemented a new scalable, full-stack application using TypeScript, AWS ECS containers, AWS Lambdas, and Next.js to generate millions of PDF documents from a single user request.
• Declared and deployed AWS resources using Terraform (infrastructure as code).
• Used AI integrated development environment to accelerate product design, implementation, and delivery.

### Senior Software Engineer @ NWEA
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Portland, Oregon
• Maintained event-driven data pipeline for consumer facing REST API using TypeScript, AWS Lambdas, and DynamoDB.
• Collaborated with database admins for upstream schema changes for data pipeline.
• Lead initiative to enforce SSL/TLS across multiple AWS hosted microservices.
• Designed a new REST API for front-end UI consumption using TypeScript, AWS Lambdas, and DynamoDB.
• Mentored junior team members on technical challenges and importance of test coverage.

### Software Engineer @ NWEA
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Portland, Oregon
• Designed, implemented, tested, and provided operational support for fully CI/CD back-end microservices in AWS using API Gateway, Node.js Lambdas, and DynamoDB.
• Integrated comprehensive regression test suites into CI/CD pipeline to ensure fast feedback of code changes.
• Decreased cycle time for Kanban workflow by refactoring Jenkins CI/CD build pipelines to shorten build times.
• Lead agile team in a Scrum Master role, encouraging quality and inter-team communication in order to reduce defects, scope creep, and churn.
• Maintained and added new features to a PostgreSQL and Java based ETL application.
• Developed database schemas for 2 new APIs which ingested an event stream from an ETL process.
• Contributed to API performance tests using k6 and Grafana.

### Software QA Engineer @ NWEA
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Portland, Oregon
• Wrote and maintained automated GUI and end-to-end tests using Protractor (JavaScript) for AngularJS front-end applications.
• Upgraded existing test suites to be cross-browser and cross-operating system.
• Mentored a Scrum team on transitioning from waterfall workflow to CI/CD.
• Implemented and monitored AWS infrastructure for Node.js Lambda and API Gateway microservices.
• Refactored and enhanced automated Python API functional tests and service health checks.

### DevOps Intern @ Jama Software
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Portland, Oregon
• Investigated, diagnosed, and remediated production-level paging events via root cause analysis.
• Prepared and oversaw deployment of EC2 web applications hosted in Amazon Web Services.
• Maintained Bash and Python deployment scripts for use with the Chef configuration manager.
• Mobbed with self-selecting agile teams on stories to develop horizontally scalable infrastructure.

### Software Quality Assurance Intern @ CDK Global
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Portland, Oregon
• Worked with an agile team to develop and maintain features for a full stack web application.
• Developed and debugged front-end AngularJS code using the WebStorm IDE.
• Integrated a Grunt plugin to enforce unit test code coverage metrics for repository branch builds.
• Created front-end unit tests using the Karma task runner to increase code coverage to 80%.
• Implemented automated user interface smoke tests and end-to-end tests. 
• Investigated automated UI test frameworks for use on a non-web legacy app.

### Software Development Intern @ NWEA
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Portland, Oregon
• Developed and maintained code for a full stack Java web application with a legacy code base.
• Collaborated with an agile team on a RESTful web service from proof of concept to deployment.
• Implemented a relational database schema for integrating a new microservice.
• Debugged back-end Java code using IntelliJ IDEA connected to a PostgreSQL database.
• Built unit tests for new microservice API endpoints using JUnit testing framework.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science
Portland State University
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/matthew-f-0838a437

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Source: https://flows.cv/matthewf
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Last updated: 2026-03-22