Matt Harbers - Chief Technology Officer, Private Company

Feedback from Matt’s ex-colleagues

Let me see

Keep in touch with meI'm using Intch to connect with new people. Use this link to open chat with me via Intch app

Work Background

KamsaChief Technology Officer

Jun. 2019Remote - Atlanta, GA♦ Led development of B2B SaaS product from idea to release to continued record breaking growth and revenue during year 1. ♦ Led a team of fully remote ~20 product designers, QA engineers/analysts, devops engineers, data scientists, and software engineers across 4+ timezones, including Europe. ♦ Deeply involved with product development, roadmapping, backlog grooming, and sprint planning to achieve company goals. ♦ Built a technology organization with security at its core. ♦ Led the process of SOC2 audits, Pen testing, and Vulnerability Assessments. ♦ Plan and make efficient use of budget while filling skills gaps. ♦ Developed initial implementation of machine learning fuzzing matching process to facilitate client onboarding. ♦ Involved with contract redlining, security questionnaires, and client interaction. ♦ Work closely with the CEO to set direction of the company. ♦ Selected to participate in Fall 2020 Google for Startups Accelerator.

PayScale, Inc.Lead Software Engineer

Aug. 2016 - Jun. 2019Greater Atlanta AreaWide range of responsibilities that include hiring new engineers, working closely with Product Owners and Executives to allocate development resources on projects, and architecting/coding feature products using React/NodeJS - Led team of engineers building a new product from inception to over $1 million monthly recurring revenue in a year and a half. - Identified and worked to alleviate software and infrastructure pain points causing platform instability. - Facilitated the transition from prototype to enterprise level product while meeting aggressive product release deadlines. - Worked to migrate existing application from legacy software to new tech stack.

eVestmentSenior Software Engineer

Jan. 2014 - Aug. 2016Marietta, GADesigns and implements single page app, parallel processed software for the institutional investor financial industry. • Lead software engineer on the New Projects/Insights team responsible for creation of both prototype and established product software • Primary contributor to new product that performs millions of calculations in real time to determine a relative score to similar investments. o Used to plan strategy for billions of dollars of investments o Data store uses combination MSSQL, Redis, ElasticSearch o Use of asynchronous and task based processing to ensure maximum client web experience o Frontend developed in ExtJS (MVVM Javascript framework) • Conversion of several legacy web apps to more modern ExtJS single page app with updated data stores. o Increases in usability increased sales several millions of dollars • Organized company hackathon and created Chrome extension to aid in exception debugging • Led “Clean Code” book discussions for whole technology team

CareerBuilderSoftware Engineer Team Lead

Sep. 2011 - Dec. 2013Greater Atlanta AreaThe Consumer Website Development team is whose primary responsibilities include Resume Posting, Job Application, Job Searching, and the mobile website experience. Led a team of up to 10 software engineers developing products for multiple business owners servicing the consumer facing portion of Careerbuilder.com. This includes development and production of service oriented features, AJAX driven interactions, and responsive design. Responsible for team member hiring process, employee quarterly reviews, career pathing advice, and code mentoring. Work with our business sponsors to develop projects related to job searching, resume posting, applying to jobs on both desktop and mobile web experiences using project roadmapping, project scoping, and prototyping. Implement and fine tune development process for the team. Using Certified Scrum Master training, our process allows us to deploy code multiple times a day and provide business value through 1 week sprints. Designed and implemented site performance experiment resulting in a 5-8% site speed improvement and 5% increase in core business metric. Mentor, code review team members, and lead discussions and book reviews on Software Engineering practices and design. Campaigned for a replacement of the existing regression testing platform. Spent six weeks designing and implementing new API helper framework, testing framework, as well as converting top problematic Selenium tests to the new environment. Designed and implemented a scalable market reporting tool using several APIs and aggregated data from the hireInsider product. Heavily AJAX reliant which required in-depth understanding of how jQuery attaches events to elements. Performance tweaks were needed to overcome speed hurdles. Individual projects include developing off platform Careerbuilder applications in the cloud as well as a site conversion from web forms to .NET MVC using Razor.

CareerBuilderSoftware Engineer

Nov. 2007 - Sep. 2011Designed scalable software for job searching, resume posting, and applying to jobs with tens of millions of requests per day. Worked with and mentored up to 6 software engineers. Performed A/B Experiments using proprietary tools, 3rd party tools, and data reporting to test new features. Built a new scalable real-time consumer reporting tool called hireInsider, allowing jobseekers to see dynamic data on their competition to a job across multiple categories. This new consumer product helped drive registrations and increased resume postings by 20%. Designed and implemented ad targeting framework to aggregate a user’s data and privately pass information to ad networks to provide relevant ads. Refactored large scale Javascript/jQuery application that provides market trends, salary information, and other data to recruiters. Changed application to a user friendly AJAX interaction which provided an easier to use interface and increased performance.

CareerBuilderWeb Developer III

Nov. 2005 - Nov. 2007Perform general UX enhancements and page redesigns on both the consumer and employer sides of Careerbuilder.com. Implemented table-less homepage redesign based on designer’s mockup. Made special allowances for older browsers while supporting modern CSS properties through conditional stylesheets. Implemented new resume posting path front end and wired up the data binding/saving of resume.

Intch is a Professional Networking App for the Future of Work

300k+ people

130+ countries

AI matching

Get Intch if you'd like to

📝

Get Recommended to New Customers

👋

Connect with Like-Minded People

💸

Raise Capital

🚀