# Matthew Howell

> Audio Software

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/matthewhowell

samples, pixels, protocols, or exploits. pick a passion
JS, TS, Node, React
iOS & embedded audio
Application Security, IoT sensor networks

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Rapchat
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Global
Programming for the web and mobile apps to provide rappers and producers best in class platform and tools.

### iOS Engineer @ IRQ Zero
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Oakland

### Senior Security Engineer @ Lending Club
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Senior Software Engineer @ Lending Club
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017
cross functional, full stack, Node.js, api developer

### Principal Product Engineer @ IRQ Zero
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | berkeley, CA
software, sound design, and a love for working with fun collaborative teams
lately the main focus has been interactive installation work with un-namable clients
these awesome projects have included LED programming, video mapping to non standard LED screens, distributed NFC web networks, and Designing responsive web apps.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Rootmusic / Bandpage
Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 | San Francisco
Various roles in my time at this startup. The main software was a social CMS made for music label managers. I quickly became a knowledge keeper in the organization, working to inspire collaboration between myself and my coworkers. My main focus as Senior Engineer was to contribute to the maintainability of the core web app product. Secondary goals attained included creation and maintaining engineering infrastructures.
Frontend Engineering using contemporary javascript paradigms, nodejs, and custom architected build solutions.
Quality Assurance Engineering source code management solutions, technical coordination, high level systems debugging and operation.
In time, one of my roles, as the technical liaison to Customer Support, turned into that of completely redefining the customer support department's operations.

### Software Engineer @ RadicalFusion, Inc
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011
RadicalFusion is a kind of like mitochondria for startups. The experience here was rewarding and unique. The client work presented formidable challenges across all sorts of web application projects.

### Web Developer @ Bio-Rad Laboratories
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010
Working on projects that range from creating flash animations, product catalog presentations, and video players to Webtrends tracking and custom reporting with mysql php and jquery.  Science rules.

### Web Developer @ Self-Employed Contractor
Jan 2008 – Jan 2010
Making blogs and corporate sites.. 
LAMP Javascript CSS Wordpress

### Technical Lead @ Exopolis
Jan 2007 – Jan 2008
Freelance development and tech lead on projects since Nov. 2007

Flash/Flex AS2/AS3/MXML - programming/refactoring

PHP 5.1/5.2 - research/design/programming/refactoring

XML/XHTML/CSS/Javascript - programming/refactoring/maintenance

LAMP config/maintenance


## Education
### SIM - in Studio for Interrelated Media
Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Jan 2001 – Jan 2005

### BS in Common Sense / Practical Execution
autodidact
Jan 2005 – Jan 2012


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

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Source: https://flows.cv/matthewhowell
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/matthewhowell/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-23