# Matthew K.

> Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/matthewk2

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ JPMorganChase
Jan 2024 – Present | New York City Metropolitan Area
Identity and Access Management > Role Based Access Control Team

### Senior Software Engineer @ Block
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024
- Data Security Engineering, InfoSec
- Privacy Engineering, InfoSec

### Data Engineer @ BANYAN
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
• Established API routes for financial and consumer data on AWS API Gateway in Node.js
    • Produced sandbox environment for POC with Walmart
• Populated both AWS RDS and DynamoDB (NoSQL) databases with data from API calls
• Transitioned endpoint to a GCP BigTable and BigQuery backend in Golang with Fiber and Testify
• Scheduled data from AWS S3 and Snowflake to be processed with Apache Kafka
• Designed and built Node.js developer documentation site that auto updates with Markdown docs
• Parsed detailed data out of raw textual financial transaction description in Python with Regex

### Research Assistant @ Columbia University in the City of New York
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020
• The Making and Knowing Project is tasked with creating an online critical edition of BnF MS 640, a 14th century French manuscript of scientific and artistic recipes
• Created a Python object of the manuscript optimized for search by any tagged attribute with Regex, and Spacy. Implemented continuous integration on the project Github (cu-mkp/manuscript-object) with TravisCI to ensure new versions and translations of the manuscript are compatible with the digital structure of the manuscript object. This includes an instructional Jupyter Notebook on using the object.
• Normalized tagged terms in the manuscript with a preferred lemma automatically generated from scholar user stories in Python with NLTK and Spacy.
• Designed data quality standards and implementation in dialogue with the historians on the project.

### Academic Teaching Assistant @ Columbia University in the City of New York
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Greater New York City Area
• Assisted Professor Roosevelt Montás in a three-week philosophy program for high school students in New York City, and led one-hour recitation after a two-hour seminar with Professor Montás.
• Currently meeting with students once every two weeks after school on a year-long civic engagement program.

### Data Engineering Intern @ Arthena
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Greater New York City Area
• Designed transforms to extract and structure information from natural language descriptions of art market data with domain specialists using Python, SQL, Regex, Pandas, and Pytest in production ETL pipeline.
• Designed and implemented semantic model of art auction departments, media, dimensions, and other critical features.
• Extracted dozens of features on the medium, dimensions, and context around the production of an artwork.
• Refactored transforms across three engineering products with common utility library and strong type enforcements
• Implemented data quality tests with CircleCI and Pytest, and corrected issues with Google Cloud Platform
• Communicated engineering practices to non-technical teams, and liaised with business development team members to establish best practices and future protocol for financial analysis


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Philosophy
Columbia University

### High School in Engineering
High Technology High School

### Biology in Philosophy
Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/matthew-r-kumar

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Last updated: 2026-04-05