# Matthew Smith > Software Engineer Location: Los Angeles, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/matthewsmith Experienced software engineer specializing in platform development for the predictive analytics and Web3 domains. My career path has taken a unique combination of creative and technical turns, resulting in a distinct perspective on the interplay between product vision and technical excellence. At my best and most dynamic when communicating with a broad range of stakeholders from business, product and technical disciplines to help an organization converge on the best version of what's possible. I've worked a lot with search, event based architectures, data science and model deployment. Especially excited by peer-to-peer and decentralized technologies. SKILLS AND TECHNOLOGIES: Typescript, JavaScript, node, Express, React/Redux, Postgres and other common relational databases, Docker, Kubernetes, Python, flask, fastapi, functional programming, Haskell, Web3, API Design, system architecture and design, microservices ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Mastercard Jan 2023 – Present | Los Angeles Metropolitan Area Foundry R&D / Emerging Tech ### Senior Software Engineer - Backend Services @ SuperRare Labs Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | United States Led the migration of superrare.com from a database query based search feature to a performant indexed search engine with modern functionality like typo tolerance, advanced facets and filters, multiple hard and relevant sort options, etc. Architected an event-based architecture to stream NFT events on the Ethereum blockchain to service subscribers (like a robust and fault-tolerant serializer/updater for search records, replacing costly Postgres/Postgraphile subscriptions to improve performance, reliability, and replayability for the whole system). ### Senior Software Engineer @ Alteryx Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 Designed and implemented a Connectors microservice for managing credentials and data retrieval from third-party cloud-based file storage and databases. Built stable and secure connectors for S3, GDrive, Dropbox, OneDrive, Snowflake, Redshift. Full-stack developer on Machine Learning and Assisted Modeling tools in the Alteryx Predictive suite. Leveraged open source tools like scikit-learn to create a robust and performant Python backend that samples and fits user-selected algorithms and returns evaluation metrics for model performance, paired with data- and input-intensive React frontends to guide users through critical data preparation steps. ### Software Engineer @ Alteryx Jan 2018 – Jan 2022 | Greater New York City Area Full-stack development on Alteryx Promote, a platform for deploying, monitoring and evaluated predictive models. Promote abstracts the containerization/orchestration of models, metrics and management tools by auto generating containers and API endpoints for predictions, metadata, and metrics for any given predict function. ### Creative Director @ Freelance (Self employed) Jan 2014 – Jan 2018 | Greater New York City Area Creative Services for clients such as Adidas, Amazon and more. ### Content Writer @ Riot Games Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Santa Monica, CA Created written content for leagueoflegends.com and other media for the world's biggest video game, League of Legends. Wrote and creative directed global promotional videos for LCE (E-Sports league) and video gameplay tutorials. ### Senior Creative Writer and Strategist @ MP Creative Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Greater New York City Area Created global ad campaigns and strategic initiatives in all media for clients such as H&M, ALDO, UNIQLO, Jil Sander and more. ## Education ### BA in Philosophy and Media Studies Eugene Lang College ### NYC Tech Talent Pipeline Web Development Fellowship Fullstack Academy ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/matthew-smith-a92610152 --- Source: https://flows.cv/matthewsmith JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/matthewsmith/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22