# Matthew Wu > Senior Software Engineer Location: New York, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/matthewwu ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Atlassian Jan 2024 – Present Loom, core product ### Senior Software Engineer @ Blind Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | New York, United States • Executed the CPO’s vision to address the company’s SEO challenges, focusing on increasing user engagement and views • Key contributor to the migration of the legacy web app to NextJS, implementing server-side rendering, React server com- ponents, NextJS data fetching/caching patterns, streaming, lazy loading, and improved image optimizations • Achieved significant improvements in website performance and accessibility, consistently boosting Google Lighthouse scores to 95%+ on each benchmark, resulting in higher SEO/search ranking • Started committee to document data entities/lifecycles, creating data flow diagrams that revealed code redundancy and secured buy-in to move to reusable services, effectively reducing bloat and enhancing system efficiency • Drove adoption of streamlined processes - optimizing design versioning and feedback loops, enhancing ticket require- ments, synthesizing business logic down to engineering tasks, resulting in 15% increase in biweekly story completion • Established team practices and documentation of technologies/patterns used • Technologies: Next.js, React, Node, ElasticSearch, Redis, MySQL ### Technical Lead, Citi Ventures Studio @ Citi Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area • Foundational engineer that drove development of Worthi from prototype to production with thousands of live users. Worthi empowers users to develop their professional skills and was an honoree for the 2021 Webby Awards • Led migration from Angular to React using a micro frontend strategy which allowed code parallelization with both frame- works, and enabled a gradual transition that minimized disruptions for users • Shipped mission-critical features for magic link authentication, content sharing, and jobs notification service, resulting in 30% improved user engagement and retention • Enhanced app performance by 15% through code reuse, optimized state management, Redis-based data caching to re- duce database queries, and lazy loading for faster initial page load times • Mentored junior engineers through code guidelines, reviews, and pair programming to foster team growth • Technologies: React, Node, ElasticSearch, Redis, PostgreSQL, Docker, GCP ### Senior Software Engineer, Citi Ventures Studio @ Citi Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area Building projects to increase economic vitality ### Software Engineer @ Pulse Q&A Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area • Developed key features including the feed, polls, and user profiles for the social research platform • Created high quality, cross-platform components using React/React Native Web • Achieved 10% performance improvement by identifying bottlenecks using bundle analyzers - code splitting/profiling, minification, and asset optimization • Worked closely with design and product teams on feature development - feedback, testing, and managing deployments • Technologies: React, React Native Web, Node, AWS ### Full Stack Developer @ Magic Gourmet Trading Inc Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area • Developed fullstack application to help scale wholesale business (online shop, persistent carting) • Planned and implemented database schema and APIs to handle CRUD operations • Developed an admin application to help non-technical employees interface with database/inventory • Technologies: MongoDB, Express, Angular, Node, GCP ### Salesforce Data Intern @ AppDynamics Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area Jul-Sept 2015: • Data governance for Business Intelligence team • 5,000+ Salesforce client accounts Jul-Aug 2017: • Data governance for Sales Ops team • 2,000+ Salesforce client accounts ### Student Tech Evangelist @ Dropbox Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | University of Washington • Cultured critical mass of Dropbox users • Increased adoption rates through talks, articles, blogging, and demos • Opposition research to strategize how to convert cloud storage users from competitive provider ### IT Intern @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Bay Area • Virtualization operations, network troubleshooting, device management, and help desk services • Built Intranet and splash pages improving accessibility, navigation, and content standards • Requirements gathering, database schema, and implementing database for IT inventory ## Education ### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science and Systems University of Washington Jan 2012 – Jan 2017 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/matthewjwu - GitHub: https://github.com/mjxw --- Source: https://flows.cv/matthewwu JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/matthewwu/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22