About

Matt Upham is a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer with expertise in JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Python, and web3. He is also an active YouTuber, creating tech and career videos on his channel, youtube.com/mattupham. Matt has a strong background in building applications from scratch, making design decisions, testing code, applying agile methodologies, and using modern technologies. He is proficient in various technologies, including JavaScript, React, Redux, TypeScript, Node, Express, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Redis. Matt's background in operations and project management enables him to communicate clearly and effectively, making him an asset in collaborative environments. He can work independently or with interdisciplinary teams, making him a versatile team player. In his current position at a fintech company, Matt has built a merchant portal from scratch, contributed to design decisions, implementation, and tech choices, using React, Redux, TypeScript, and SCSS. He has also created web scraping scripts for merchant outreach, found over 40,000 potential merchants, using Python, Node.js, and related packages, saving hundreds of hours of manual effort. Additionally, he has conducted interviews for new software engineering candidates, contributing to building a fast-growing team. In his past roles, Matt has worked as a Software Engineer Apprentice at Twilio, where he created a plans and pricing page for Twilio Studio using React, Redux, JavaScript, TypeScript, and Bootstrap technologies. He has also worked on a project called Eastwatch, where he constructed a video microservice for a YouTube-like app, capable of handling API requests at scale. He optimized queries by adding Redis cache, improved median search latency from 2.3ms to 1.5ms at 500rps, and implemented an Amazon SQS message bus, handling non-real-time updates from other microservices. Matt holds a Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and completed a Full Stack Web Development program at Hack Reactor. He has relevant experience of 4.77 years and is proficient in various technologies, including Software Engineering, Web3, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Redux, Redis, MySQL, Web, test, Microservices, Search, and NodeJS.