# Matt Thompson > Redefining the Human Experience with AI | Forward Deployed Engineer @ Parloa Location: New York, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/mattthompson Matt is a certified AWS Solutions Architect Professional and AWS Machine Learning Specialist on a mission to bring innovative solutions to the world. His expertise includes AI/ML, DevOps, and cloud infrastructure. He thrives in environments that require unique problem solving, foster self learning, and provide opportunities to teach others. Matt's current goals include: ➡ Marrying his cloud engineering, machine learning, and DevOps knowledge to help organizations realize unmet, unknown needs ➡ Building out thought leadership and community around AI/ML, MLOps, and AWS architecture ➡ Growing his AI/ML and cloud knowledge via personal projects ## Work Experience ### Forward Deployed Engineer @ Parloa Jan 2025 – Present | New York, New York, United States Collaborating with customers to transform their AI goals into a reality. ### Cloud & AI/ML Engineer - Associate @ Pariveda Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | New York, New York, United States Matt was promoted to Associate in October 2024 where he continued to work with clients to deliver high impact solutions in the infrastructure and AI/ML domains. He worked with the CPO of a non-profit delivering AI/ML insights with the goal of reducing veteran deaths. Outside of sprint-level AI/ML tasks, Matt and the team worked with the client to build a long term AI vision that will sustainably help them reach their goals. Matt maintained his relationship with previous clients as a trusted advisor to help them reach AI/ML maturity. ### Cloud & AI/ML Engineer – Consultant @ Pariveda Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | New York, New York, United States Matt specialized in delivering cloud, DevOps, and ML solutions to clients. Major accomplishments include: ➡ Implementing a network migration solution that allowed 100+ AWS accounts supporting over $10 million of operations a day to adopt on-prem connectivity via Transit Gateway Hub using Python ➡ Building CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure using GitHub Actions and EC2-backed ECS clusters for Docker, .NET Framework, and C++, enabling over 2000 projects using noncompliant DevOps practices to use centralized pipelines ➡ Architecting and developing a "golden container" service that provided a self-updating registry of 20+ security-approved base Docker images to secure the software supply chain, reducing Critical/High CVEs by 75% and covering 83% of org-wide container usage with an inner-sourcing model to take care of the rest ➡ Defining SLOs, building reusable Datadog dashboards in Terraform, and creating metric monitors for the team's services. ➡ Leveraging AWS and Azure automated machine learning tools for 2 clients: detected prescription errors for a large hospital system and classified time series data to assess IoT product feasibility ➡ Hand-building and delivering machine learning models to 2 nonprofit clients to predict and understand mental health outcomes, informing data-driven intervention strategies at the policy and clinical levels ### Community Director @ Forge Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Charlottesville, Virginia, United States Matt was the director of a team of 8 people tasked with building up the Forge community to help students network, learn, and grow. He planned and organized social and professional events. Forge is a professional development organization on a mission to foster innovation and provide students with the tools necessary to build their careers outside of the classroom. ### Crash Course Manager @ Forge Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Charlottesville, Virginia, United States Matt started and built Forge's Crash Course program from the ground up, which included recruiting guests with industry knowledge, planning events, and connecting with over 1000 students to help give them learning opportunities outside of the classroom. Crash Courses aimed to provide interesting technical workshops to the community such as 'Intro to Photoshop' and 'Distributed Systems 101'. ### Summer Business Analyst @ MW JONES & COMPANY INC Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Reston, Virginia, United States Provided analytical and consulting services to a government-serving commercial client, spearheading many projects that helped the client understand cost drivers, find potential future opportunities, and maximize its competitive edge. ### Software Engineer and Data Scientist @ Common House Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Charlottesville, Virginia, United States Common House is a social club with locations in multiple cities. During Matt's internship, Common House was in the process of expanding and building out new locations from its base Charlottesville space. This opportunity was provided through the Forge Launch program's SWE path, a 3 week bootcamp to teach students the hard and soft skills necessary to be a software engineer. Over the course of the summer and following school year, Matt: ➡️ Unified Common House's data backend through low code NodeJS tools to help the organization reduce data silos across its various SaaS vendors ➡️ Spearheaded a project using R-based ML to conduct market segmentation on Common House's CRM data to help build out data-driven marketing capabilities and understand COVID-19 impacts ➡️ Built out various programs like the referral program and corporate membership program ### Applied Mathematics Teaching Assistant @ University of Virginia Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Charlottesville, VA For three semesters, Matt assisted professors in 40-50 people classes (Multivariable Calculus, Linear Algebra, Differential Equations). Matt was both a teacher and leader in the classroom by using learned teaching and communication frameworks. ### Co-Founder and Partner @ Lace-Up Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 • Lace-Up was an online platform that allows the user to buy shoes at the best price on the market. • Did not succeed but learned a lot and met many cool people along the way. ### Fellow @ Launch: High School Entrepreneurship Program Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Boston, Massachusetts Founded a marketing company, Virra Marketing, that served local musicians, helping talented individuals and groups succeed in the industry. ### Fellow @ Catapult Ideas Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | New York Catapult is a business incubator for high school entrepreneurs that aims to launch successful businesses. Matt is currently working on launching his company, Lace-Up, at Catapult. ## Education ### Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc in Systems Engineering University of Virginia ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mattluthompson --- Source: https://flows.cv/mattthompson JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/mattthompson/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05