# Matthew Wagner

> Software Engineer at LaunchDarkly

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

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ LaunchDarkly
Jan 2019 – Present

### Staff Software Engineer @ Iterable
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
Key Technologies: Scala, Elasticsearch, Kafka, Redis, RabbitMQ, AWS Services + Terraform

- Hired to work on product features, but quickly shifted to focus on scalability and reliability challenges

- Introduced APM to the organization and led instrumentation of the existing code with OpenTracing + DataDog

- Replaced RabbitMQ with Kafka for one high-throughput use case, coordinating the rollout and sharing Kafka expertise with the team

- Rearchitected and rewrote a complex data ingestion pipeline to achieve more consistent performance, more self-explanatory code, and better future extensibility

### Lead Software Engineer @ New Relic, Inc.
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
Key Technologies: Go, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Kafka, Mesos, AWS Services + Terraform

- Architected and implemented most of the back-end services for New Relic Infrastructure, a SaaS product surfacing high-granularity metrics, configuration, and state from agents installed on customer machines

- Served as the lead of the back-end team, balancing ongoing reliability work with new feature development

- Made significant scalability improvements to the system as needed over 18 months of +20% monthly product growth, with a heavy focus on preventing recurrences of problems and avoiding them in the first place

### Senior Software Engineer @ Opsmatic
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Bay Area
(Acquired by New Relic)

### Senior Software Engineer @ IBM
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015
A continuation of my role at UrbanCode, serving as technical lead for the UrbanCode Deploy product: https://developer.ibm.com/urbancode/products/urbancode-deploy

Primary Responsibilities:
Providing technical guidance to a growing team of developers
Ensuring that a growing and complex codebase remains stable, clean, and maintainable by establishing best practices, peer reviews, and flexible frameworks
Designing new features and performance/scalability enhancements
Supporting sales and services initiatives
Balancing work on new functionality with requirements to meet new post-acquisition corporate standards
And still, writing a whole lot of code

### Software Developer @ Urbancode
Jan 2010 – Jan 2013 | Cleveland, OH
Lead developer on uDeploy, UrbanCode's application release automation solution: http://www.urbancode.com/html/products/deploy

Primary Responsibilities:
Feature design and planning
Managing customer requirements
Supporting sales initiatives and existing customers
Writing a whole lot of code

### Coordinator, Virtual Services @ Wadsworth Public Library
Jan 2007 – Jan 2010 | Wadsworth, Ohio, United States

### Technology Assistant @ Wadsworth Public Library
Jan 2006 – Jan 2007 | Wadsworth, Ohio, United States

### Page @ Wadsworth Public Library
Jan 2005 – Jan 2006 | Wadsworth, Ohio, United States


## Education
### BS in Computer Science
Walsh University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mattwagner0
- Portfolio: http://www.rengawm.com

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Last updated: 2026-04-11