About

Matt Harris is a highly experienced senior software engineer with over 7 years of relevant experience in the tech industry. Currently working at SymphonyRM, he is responsible for designing and developing software solutions that improve healthcare outcomes. With a strong background in software engineering, Matt has a proven track record of delivering high-quality solutions that meet customer needs. In his previous role at Kaplan, Matt developed a scalable bulk publishing system and real-time UI using AWS SQS & Lambda, Redis, postgreSQL, Angular and Web Workers, allowing 200+ content authors to update hundreds of content items at once. He also implemented a reusable, highly configurable frontend library using Angular and Elasticsearch, allowing advanced searches of authored content and enabling key features such as one-step course creation. He reduced ReactJS app page load time by ~1000% through pagination, Redis cache, and partial data rendering. Matt's experience at Carta involved architecting the Carta SAFE financing tool using Django rest framework and VueJS front end, resulting in the movement of >$4MM for ~40 investors, successfully funding ~25 companies' seed round. He also improved financings and captable code quality with >30 unit tests, exception handling, and refactoring of anti-patterns, leading to an 80% drop in weekly production exceptions. He worked with agile development methodology, including daily SCRUMS, weekly sprints with a multi-regional team, extensive code reviews, version control using Github, and team retrospectives to improve workflows. Matt has a Master of Science in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology, which he is expected to complete in December 2022. He also has a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in English from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. His technical expertise includes software engineering, Redis, AWS, frontend development, AngularJS, Elastic Search, UI, Web, and ReactJS. Matt is a highly motivated and results-driven individual with excellent communication and interpersonal skills. He is passionate about software engineering and is always looking for new challenges and opportunities to grow his skills.