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Matthew Black

@matthewblack

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Senior Full Stack Engineer | Java, Spring Boot, React, AWS | Driving Scalable Cloud Solutions & AI-Powered Applications

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek senior engineering roles building cloud-native microservices and AI-enabled applications, with mentorship opportunities, strong DevOps practices, and a collaborative Agile culture.

I am a Senior Full Stack Java developer with 11+ years designing scalable backend systems and robust frontend applications, with deep experience in Java (8–21), Kotlin, Python, and modern JavaScript frameworks.

I have led cloud-native microservices migrations, improved deployment frequency and cost efficiency, and mentored engineering teams while implementing CI/CD, containerization, and observability to reduce downtime and production bugs.

I deliver end-to-end solutions—APIs, AI integrations, event-driven pipelines, and performant frontends—focused on reliability, security, and measurable business impact.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Senior Software Engineer

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Blocks

Feb 2023 - Present (2 years 9 months)

Led design and implementation of Spring Boot microservices and AWS-based infrastructure, increasing scalability and deployment frequency by 50% while improving reliability by 40%. Mentored 8 developers and integrated AI-driven Python models for real-time analytics.

Java Spring Boot AWS Microservices Docker Kubernetes GraphQL Python Terraform

Senior Full Stack Developer

Koombea

Jul 2017 - Jan 2023 (5 years 6 months)

Architected and delivered a microservices-based healthcare platform using Spring Boot and Kubernetes, improving fault tolerance and reducing deployment errors by 25% while ensuring HIPAA compliance. Led frontend modernization with React and TypeScript and built real-time ETL pipelines with Kafka.

Spring Boot Kubernetes React TypeScript Apache Kafka AWS PostgreSQL Redis CI CD

Junior Java Developer

BAE Systems

Jan 2016 - Jun 2017 (1 year 5 months)

Developed backend services with Spring Boot and Hibernate for payment processing and user management, improved performance via Redis caching and PostgreSQL tuning, and supported CI/CD with Jenkins and Docker.