# Matthew Gardner > Tech Lead, Senior Software Engineer at Loop Location: Westerville, Ohio, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/matthewgardner I have worked on a number of web and mobile projects in many stacks, but primarily React, Laravel, Flutter, and Vue. I am very familiar with AWS and Docker but also have experience with Azure and Google Cloud. I am passionate about Agile development and push for improvements to our process wherever we can make them. At work, I'm hard-working, goal-oriented, and process-driven. As a person, I'm laid back and flexible. I enjoy working in a team environment and I've worked in client-facing positions long enough to be able to explain complicated processes to people outside the field without much difficulty. I also have plenty of practical, diverse programming knowledge to bring to my team. In my previous role, I took a leading role on many of the web and Flutter projects my teams created and maintained, running the gamut from small to big, new to legacy, and everything in between. My earlier roles were an internship and a subsequent full-time position at Target Inc. In those roles I worked on a variety of projects and teams, including a backend team serving some of the most popular customer-facing services at Target (Java / Springboot 2) and a cloud infrastructure team where I helped to shape the development and deployment platform across the company. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer | Tech Lead @ Loop Jan 2024 – Present | Columbus, Ohio ### Senior Software Engineer @ Loop Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 ### Lead Software Engineer @ Buckeye Innovation Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Columbus, Ohio Area I was promoted to Lead Software Engineer at Buckeye Innovation in March of 2022, which entailed taking on a more official leadership role within the team. That included direct reports and more opportunities for hands-on mentoring, as well as an opportunity to join our management team and determine quarterly and yearly company goals. I split time between management responsibilities, new project estimation and RFP responses, and direct contribution to project work. - Led an initiative to create a cross-functional discovery process for new projects, improving the quality of discovery artifacts, improving client satisfaction and reducing the rate of project planning mistakes - Rescued an existing Laravel/Vue agency management portal when the client’s developer suddenly quit, working with our CEO to create a smooth transition of services. Added a suite of charts, tools and visualizations to provide insight into Agency value and market position, as well as Pusher integration. - Led a team to create a from-scratch home loan management portal in Laravel/React and scaling AWS ECS cluster, integrating with Encompass and Clicksend - Led the design and development of a custom Laravel/Inertia/React Learning Management System to provide financial education to underprivileged communities with a focus on course efficacy ### Software Engineer @ Buckeye Innovation Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | New Albany, Ohio, United States I was a team member on a small team of engineers and designers doing in-house contracting for a variety of clients. I worked in a mix of project lead and assisting roles on projects in Laravel/React, Flutter, Vue, Wordpress and Shopify. Some notable things I've done: - Rebuilt a large shopping center’s mobile app in Flutter for ~15% of the original project cost, while adding additional features and integrations. The success of this project led to a >$100k website redesign contract. - Built Flutter app, Laravel/React portal, and custom Golang deployment tooling for personalized, agency-branded insurance management experience. - Worked with VP of Engineering to build an automated, repeatable AWS Kubernetes-backed ECS infrastructure environment for new projects ### TLP Software Engineer @ Target Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area Rotational position working in two different areas. Cloud Platform Engineering, where I helped create the development infrastructure that drives Target using Spinnaker, Terraform, Golang, Kubernetes, Docker, and other tools. Target's Order Management System team, where I helped to manage and maintain the data and processes behind a Fortune 50 retailer's online and in-store order processing. Used a Java stack and several DB solutions. ### Target Technology Services Intern @ Target Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Minneapolis, Minnesota I worked on a team of 3 core employees to build an internal financial application for cash counting. My tech stack was AngularJS, Springboot and Postgres. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science Miami University Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/matthew-gardner-17b344a4 --- Source: https://flows.cv/matthewgardner JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/matthewgardner/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22