Matthew Latura
@matthewlatura
Senior software engineer specializing in scalable, reliable payment and distributed systems.
United StatesWhat I'm looking for
I am a Senior Software Engineer with 10+ years building and operating large-scale, distributed production systems focused on payments, scalability, and high availability. I have led high-impact initiatives—shipping Google Pay tokenization, rewards platforms, and large migrations—while mentoring engineers and codifying architectural standards.
My work centers on financial reliability, telemetry-driven operations, and automated CI/CD guardrails to reduce MTTR and technical debt. I drive cross-functional collaboration to deliver measurable business outcomes like improved conversion, reduced reconciliation latency, and multi-region 99.99% availability.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Senior Software Engineer
Apr 2024 - Present (1 year 11 months)
Architected and delivered the Stars rewards platform for Google Pay Flex, migrating legacy monoliths to distributed services and improving feature delivery speed by 50% while achieving 99.99% availability for multi-region deployments.
Software Engineer
Aug 2019 - Apr 2024 (4 years 8 months)
Built a Tier-0 payment tokenization service for Google Pay, integrating with global TSPs and optimizing Bigtable schemas to achieve sub-20ms P99 latency across petabyte-scale data for 500M+ accounts.
Built and scaled Java microservices for the Scheduling Optimizer Service, improving workflow efficiency and reducing processing delays by 20% while cutting infrastructure costs by 40% through performance tuning and autoscaling.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
University of Arizona
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
2011 - 2013
Grade: 3.79
Completed a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with a strong academic record, focusing on software engineering and systems topics.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Splunk
Apache Spark
D3.js
AWS IAM
Kubernetes
Jenkins
CircleCI
React Native
NumPy
MySQL
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
Rollout
Node.js
Django
Spring Boot
Ruby on Rails
Next.js
.NET
Redis
Terraform
vue-next
Java
PHP
Kotlin
TensorFlow
PyTorch
scikit-learn
Keras
Kafka
RabbitMQ
FastAPI
Grafana
Prometheus
Datadog
GraphQL
Prisma
gRPC
GuardRails
Google BigQuery
SQL
LangChain
Dynamic
Increase
Jan
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Location
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