Matt Burns
Full Stack Software Developer

DevOps/Application Engineer - Oct 2016 - current - Thousand Oaks, CA

• Architected and coded an ETL application that gathers and organizes the data powering the business service.
• Applied Latent Semantic Analysis to the challenge of organizing the documents mined and searched leading a 200% improvement in ranking relevant lobby filing documents.
• Reduced the amount of man power needed by deploying and maintaining the AWS infrastructure and the the EC2 boxes hosting the various pieces of the the system.

Mobile Back End/Application Engineer - Sept 2015 - Oct 2016 - Santa Monica, CA

• Improved both the employers and job seekers "fit" rating by creating data driven dashboards that improved the candidate ranking process leading to better candidates for job postings.
• Speed up the rate at which mobile device developers can make/test features by re-factoring the API powering the Android and iPhone application.
• Coded deferred deep link logins moving users from the web app to the mobile app leading to the mobile applications App store rating jumping from 10th to 3 in the business apps category.
• Provided instant feedback for job seekers when their resume is view by potential employer adding mobile application badge notification system.

DevOps Engineer - Jan 2014 - Jan 2015 - Malibu, CA

• Transition production applications into a Docker virtualization containers improving deployment times by a factor of 10.
• Cut system operating cost in half by migrating to the Amazon cloud in a monitored automated fashion.
• Improved application engineers efficiency using the saltstack orchestration framework along with Jenkins, automating the construction of the companies infrastructure and engineers sandbox dev environments.
• Developed numerous DevOps programs for automating tasks, monitoring key metrics leading to happier better rested engineers through the organization.
• Created a reproducible infrastructure in case of disaster and further created a whole Continuous Integration/DevOps VPC to facilitate the testing of our DevOps Environment leading to a more stable product.

Application Developer - Feb 2013 - Jan 2014 - Chatsworth, CA

• Achieved a 60% reduction in network operating cost by orchestrating devops tasks using puppet to create the necessary AWS infrastructure.
• Designed and Created a SaaS application that facilitates landing site optimizing for incoming traffic, improving sales about 30%.
• Developed an automated ad purchasing program across the major ad platforms, saving money and reducing redundant business activity.

Software Engineer - Sept 2012 - Feb 2013 - Woodland Hills, CA

• Engineered automated gardening system that is monitored and administered remotely.
• System runs embedded linux on a Samsung S3C2440A system on a chip running an arm Debian distro.
• Responsive single page web app jQuery, underscore.js, backbone.js, require.js, bootstrap, Jemplate, socket.io.js.
• The web app is powered by a JSON REST server built using the Perl Catalyst framework and some C++.

Senior Software Engineer - Nov 2011 - Dec 2012 - Los Angeles, CA

• Created a scalable real time budget management server to manage advertiser spend across a variable number of delivery nodes reducing billing errors.
• Re-factored large parts of the system making the code base smaller and easier to develop.
• Assembled a team of 8 developers, interviewing then training them.
• Led a team of 5 engineers instituting a continuous delivery development environment which led to features being release faster.
• Built a single page web 2.0 app advertisement creation tool and corresponding delivery platform generating a new revenue stream.
• Project management working with 4 people in business development to produce product specifications.

Application Developer - Mar 2008 - Nov 2011 - Westlake Village, CA

• Improved and maintained the Search123 ad delivery network achieving profitability again making approximately twelve million dollars annually.
• Released new application features at regular scheduled intervals without having the system go down - ever.
• Built javascript ad widget generation tool allowing publishers to make text and image ads.
• Migrated the delivery engine and management UI from apache mod_perl to a plack moose based solution.
• Conceived and coded an application that creates websites that was administered by business experts via a content management system.
• Organized a flexible continuous integration testing framework increasing efficiency by eliminating spurious monitoring alerts
• Developed a authenticated REST transport layer using existing technologies in a new way.