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Matthew Gilbert

@matthewgilbert1

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Senior full-stack engineer specializing in scalable cloud-native systems and data-driven product delivery.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I’m seeking senior engineering roles focused on scalable cloud-native systems, strong DevOps practices, and opportunities to mentor teams while driving measurable product impact.

I am a Senior Full Stack Engineer with 13+ years building scalable products in high-growth, remote-first startup environments. I design and implement cloud-native systems on GCP and Kubernetes, delivering resilient distributed architectures and maintaining high availability for hundreds of thousands of users.

I have hands-on expertise across React, TypeScript, Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, and data pipelines, and I’ve led projects that reduced infrastructure costs by 35%, improved response latency by 60%, and increased user engagement through analytics-driven features. I also establish CI/CD, monitoring, and DevOps practices to ensure reliability and rapid delivery.

I mentor and lead engineering teams, driving technical standards, code review processes, and architecture best practices that lower incidents and increase deployment frequency. I’m passionate about scalable architecture, cloud infrastructure, and building high-impact technology solutions that support business growth.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Senior Full Stack Engineer

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CharacterStrong

Dec 2022 - Present (3 years)

Architected a scalable microservices platform (React, TypeScript, Python FastAPI, PostgreSQL) serving 200K+ active users with 99.9% uptime and sub-200ms responses; reduced deployment time from 45 to 8 minutes and cut infrastructure costs by 35%.

React TypeScript Python fastAPI PostgreSQL GCP Kubernetes Redis Grafana

Full Stack Engineer

CallingPost Communications

Dec 2018 - Dec 2022 (4 years)

Developed a full stack communication platform (React, Node.js, PostgreSQL) for 100K+ users with 99.8% uptime; engineered data pipelines processing 50M+ daily call records that generated $2M+ in revenue.

React Node PostgreSQL Python AWS Lambda RDS Grafana Data Pipelines

Backend Engineer

Blavity Inc

Jan 2017 - Nov 2018 (1 year 10 months)

Built scalable content delivery platform (Node.js, Express, PostgreSQL, Redis) serving 500K+ monthly users and engineered real-time pipelines processing 5M+ daily interactions that improved engagement by 40%.

Node Express PostgreSQL Redis API Design Docker Jenkins Caching

Software Engineer

Dandy

Jan 2015 - Dec 2016 (1 year 11 months)

Built a full stack dental marketplace (React, Node.js, MongoDB, Elasticsearch) connecting 5K+ providers and 100K+ patients; improved page load from 8s to 2s and enabled sub-100ms search for 100K+ concurrent queries.

React Node MongoDB Elasticsearch AWS Performance Optimization Microservices Docker Search

Junior Software Engineer

Petco Love

Jan 2013 - Jan 2015 (2 years)

Developed features for a pet adoption platform (JavaScript, Python, MySQL) supporting 50K+ monthly users and 200K+ listings; improved API performance and reduced response times by 40%.