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Sunitha Mathew

@sunithamathew

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I build and scale reliable backend platforms, payments, and engineering teams.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I'm looking to lead technical strategy and delivery for customer-focused products, building reliable, scalable platforms while mentoring distributed engineering teams and applying AI- and data-informed solutions.

I've led engineering at Invaluable, building high-volume consumer websites, mobile apps, and client support systems that helped grow the marketplace to more than 2 million monthly unique visitors and $350 million+ in annual gross merchandise sales.

I'm now leading technical strategy for a HIPAA-compliant mental health platform, while bringing hands-on experience in Java, AWS, payments, cloud-native modernization, and mentoring distributed teams.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Lead Technical Consultant

Current

Health Tech Startup

Jan 2026 - Present (8 months)

Lead technical strategy and architecture for a HIPAA-compliant mental health platform, guiding an offshore engineering team through design, code reviews, and delivery.

Java AWS HIPAA Architecture Code Review Team Leadership

Director, Engineering

Invaluable

Aug 2020 - Jul 2025 (4 years 11 months)

Led engineering teams to build high-volume consumer-facing websites and mobile apps, growing the marketplace to 2 million+ unique visitors per month and $350 million+ in annual gross merchandise sales.

Java Spring Boot AWS Kubernetes Docker CI CD Microservices Event Driven Architecture Stripe WePay Avalara Salesforce Engineering Management Mentorship

Lead Software Engineer

Invaluable

Apr 2018 - Jul 2020 (2 years 3 months)

Designed and delivered high-availability backend services handling millions of auction transactions annually, and expanded white-label product lines for auction houses.

Java Spring Boot RabbitMQ Distributed Systems Cloud Infrastructure

Software Engineer

Invaluable

Jul 2012 - Mar 2018 (5 years 8 months)

Built product-oriented backend features and APIs, refactored monolithic codebases into modular components, and developed automated test suites.

Java APIs Refactoring Junit Testing Automation

Software Engineer

StudentUniverse

Nov 1999 - Jul 2009 (9 years 8 months)

Founding engineering hire for an online travel platform, built and scaled backend services integrating with the Sabre travel system for flight and hotel bookings.

Java Sabre Backend Services Data Integrity