# Matt Popovich

> Staff Engineer @ Forge

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/mattpopovich

## Work Experience
### Staff Engineer @ Forge
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Cofounder and CEO @ LegislatureAI
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
Building the AI-powered legislative tracking platform for state and local government.

### L5 Frontend Engineer @ Amazon
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California and Honolulu, Hawaii
- At AWS, led cross-framework migration of web app for operators at industrial facilities to control and visualize data from Internet-of-Things-connected sensors in industrial machinery.
- At Goodreads, project lead to migrate high-visibility page from Rails to React/Next.js/TypeScript and tech lead for next-generation design system.
- Mentored junior engineers, ran team gamedays, and led agile ceremonies as scrum master.
- Took regular oncall rotations fixing critical issues affecting over 150 million users.
- Investigated and wrote Correction of Error (COE) reports and wrote and maintained backend TypeScript, Java, and Ruby services and AWS cloud resources.

### Software Engineer @ Morning Consult
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | Washington D.C. Metro Area
- Tech lead for custom in-house CMS that reduced client site build time by 90%.
- Built numerous web apps for Fortune 500 clients including Facebook, Whatsapp, American Express, CVS, Aetna, and many others.

### Web Developer @ Veracity Media
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Washington D.C. Metro Area
- Tech lead for custom CMS that reduced client project turnaround time by 80%.

### Political Campaign Consultant @ Freelance
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Washington D.C. Metro Area
- Built WordPress websites for over a dozen local, state, and congressional political campaigns.
- Served as the digital and creative lead for numerous small nonprofits and Democratic political campaigns at the local, state, and congressional levels.
- Designed logos, direct mail pieces, campaign literature, and print and digital ads.

### Communications Coordinator @ Edward "Smitty" Smith for Attorney General of the District of Columbia
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014
- Chief web, digital, and creative staffmember for the campaign.
- Built campaign's WordPress website, ran campaign social media accounts, and designed campaign literature, brand assets, direct mail pieces, and print and digital ads.
- Performed opposition research and policy research, wrote policy briefs and press releases, acted as a spokesperson for the campaign, organized and led photoshoots, helped develop communications strategy and overall campaign strategy, and organized and performed field work, including door-to-door canvassing, signature gathering, and literature distribution.


## Education
### Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Political Science / International Relations
UC San Diego


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-22