# Matthew Hwang

> Software Engineer at Verkada

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/matthewhwang

10+ YOE full-stack software developer always looking for new challenges and opportunities to learn and teach. Not afraid of picking up new technologies or programming languages. Loves both high-level architecture and design and getting hands-on with the code. Avid documentation writer to help reduce knowledge siloes. 

Expertise: Scalable software design and architecture, Go, Python, React + Typescript, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Terraform

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Verkada
Jan 2024 – Present | San Mateo, California, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ Shippo
Jan 2019 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Engineering owner for two new verticals, leading a team of four engineers to identify high-impact opportunities and deliver features from 0 to 1
- Collaborate closely with product manager and UX designer to scope feature requests, create product milestones, and manage engineering resources to deliver features on time
- While leading the Automations team, designed and implemented custom rule engine and rule creation UI to reduce time to label purchase for 20,000+ SMB users
- Enhanced web app observability by upgrading integration with Sentry SDK, adding native Fullstory replays in Sentry, and enabling sourcemaps for faster troubleshooting
- Implemented leaky bucket algorithm for queue-based processes to maintain service availability and handle expected 50% YoY increase in volume during Black Friday
- Implemented one of the first Shippo microservices and created guidelines used by 100+ engineers to shorten initial release time to days instead of weeks
- Lead developer experience working groups and champion improvements in engineering processes to reduce occurrence of P0 bugs

### Software Engineer @ Fuzzy Pet Health
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Alongside VP of Engineering, built and deployed new web app, API server and medical record/admin application within two weeks of employment
- Technical owner for marketing/growth-related initiatives
- Implemented first BI tool (Looker) and created dashboards for visibility and tracking of crucial KPIs for C-suite
- Created data models, RESTful APIs, webhooks, and UIs for internal teams for five third-party integrations (shipping, payments, analytics, CRM, geolocation)
- Mentor four junior engineers through pair programming, code reviews and whiteboarding

### Application Programmer 3 @ UC Davis Health System
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Sacramento
As a biobanking programmer, I created a unified biospecimen database and web-based search interface from scratch to enable greater collaboration between researchers at UC Davis.  I am responsible for the design, full-stack development, and maintenance of the search interface as well as an onboarding website to help biobanks import their specimen collections. I also develop ETL pipelines for each biobank to simplify the data import process. 

As a software engineer working in the Public Health Sciences department at UC Davis, I help develop data pipelines and applications to support grant-funded research projects related to precision medicine. 

As a research informaticist, I work closely with a UC Davis PI and act as an honest broker for his research projects. I extract complex sets of data from EHR and perform statistical analyses on them. 

Technologies: Node.js + Express, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, Angular.js, ASP.NET MVC, Python + Django, Jenkins, Postman, Pentaho Data Integration

### Technical Services @ Epic
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Madison, Wisconsin Area
Point of contact for technical and implementation support for several healthcare organizations using Epic ASAP ED module in their hospitals. Provide at-the-elbow end-user support at hospitals going live with Epic software for the first time. Improve Epic software by developing bug fixes and internal tools to benchmark customer usage of ASAP ED software.

### Level 1 Technician @ Washington University in St. Louis
Jan 2011 – Jan 2014 | Student Technology Services
Provides direct technical support to on-campus residents, including computing, networking and cable television issues.

### Intern @ Medical College of Wisconsin
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011
Create simulations and models of enzyme kinetics and ion channels that function in mitochondria, focusing on cardiac mitochondria.


## Education
### Bachelor's Degree in BS Biomedical Engineering, Minor in Biomedical Physics
Washington University in St. Louis


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-29