Spicer Matthews

Built nonprofit fundraising software that helped raise more than $2 million for causes by December 2025, partnering with the CEO on product features and technical direction. Led a small engineering team and outside vendors while building hands-on across Laravel, Go, Node.js, React, and AWS.

Provided freelance software development services between full-time roles.

Led frontend development in Angular and Node.js on a platform running on Docker, AWS, and serverless infrastructure.

Developed Rails and React features across both legacy and new applications, collaborating with several teams and supporting an overseas development group.

Built an agricultural-data product prototype for investor demos following District Capital's pivot, then helped pitch venture investors and secure $350,000 in commitments.

Automated commercial-lending underwriting with machine-learning models for borrower and property assessment, cutting cost and turnaround time and validating the approach through millions of dollars in closed loans. Led engineering and design, set the roadmap alongside executives, and owned the technical side of a $200 million partnership with Citi and Axonic Capital.

Joined as Senior Software Engineer before being promoted to Head of Engineering.

Remote lead programmer on large-budget agency projects, building custom applications and CMS platforms for high-traffic clients; the agency later became part of Happy Cog.

Built and scaled software for personal trainers, advised the CEO on technology, and led the technical sales effort that helped close a deal with the Cincinnati Reds.

Served as Lead Systems Developer.

Designed and built a large traffic-data archive and its underlying architecture.

Developed software for the company.

Grew Linux support from 20 to 150 machines and built the deployment and management tooling behind it.

Bachelor of Science degree from Portland State University, completed in June 2007.