Matthew Kloster

Senior Software Development Manager

Engineering leader and skilled developer, with a proven track record of Getting Things Done, working on large scale ($1 billion+ annual revenue) systems, and independently co-founding a thriving product serving the development community.

Experience

Dec 2015 - Present

Director of Engineering

ALLOY.DEV, INC., Seattle, WA

  • Founding engineer for GitClear, an analytics platform aimed at developers and teams, built in Ruby on Rails and React.
  • Developed, from design to implementation, several of our most popular features: Commit dashboard, a fully flexible teams UI, and our Code Review interface.
  • Led technical sales for company demos and onboarding, including successful onboarding of 1k+ developer teams.
  • Development lead for GitClear Enterprise, an on-prem solution built in Docker, used by very large technical teams.
  • Successfully led effort to get GitClear SOC2/ISO-27001 certified. Worked with relevant stakeholders to gather audit-pertinent information, documenting technical systems (monitoring, security, code quality) our entire change management process.
Sep 2014 - Dec 2015

Software Development Engineer

AMAZON, Seattle, WA

  • Engineer for Amazon's Java-based third-party seller fees engine. Tens of thousands of peak transactions per second, totaling billions in units and revenue.
  • Created the fee backend for Amazon's FBA Small and Light program.
  • Led team's scaling efforts for the 2015 holiday season, a peak time for the business, where performance is absolutely critical. Assessed code for relevant issues, performed load testing, and gathered traffic stats from dependent teams.
  • Mentored new team members to get them comfortable and productive quickly. Answered questions and provided technical guidance.
  • Documented system features in and out of my team's microservices.
  • Coordinated team events.
  • Gave several technical talks to the team.
Jun 2013 - Aug 2014

Software Engineer

APPIA, Durham, NC

  • Implemented critical parts of a major ad campaign performance framework in Java, featuring PhD-designed algorithms with tight performance demands, scaling up to a 10x increase in user traffic.
  • Collaborated with other developers to integrate multiple systems through APIs.
  • Maintained databases by writing complex SQL queries and stored procedures.
  • Utilized object-oriented design principles to develop high-quality software components.
  • Developed code and design for software components in adherence with system requirements.
Jan 2012 - Jun 2013

Server Developer

ASURION MOBILE APPLICATIONS, San Francisco, CA

  • Lead engineer overhauling critical enrollment components for Metro Total Protection, used by millions of users. This upgraded a legacy Java system that was 5 years old. Tasks include software design, performance concerns, and data migration.
  • Collaborated with team to translate requirements into functional specifications and test plans.
  • Utilized version control systems (Subversion) to manage source code repositories.
  • Collaborated with front-end developers to ensure smooth integration of back-end code into user interface.
  • Integrated third-party APIs into existing applications via JSON and XML protocols.
  • Implemented automated unit testing practices for backend applications.

Education

2009 - 2011

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (B.S.) in COMPUTER SCIENCE

University of California, Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara, CA

GPA: 3.3

Awards & Honors

Dean's Honor List

Skills

Languages

  • HTML / CSS (HAML, SCSS)
  • Java
  • JavaScript
  • Python
  • Ruby
  • SQL

Tools & Services

  • Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Ansible
  • Confluence
  • Docker
  • Heroku
  • Jira

Technology & Frameworks

  • AI and LLM integration
  • Certification (ISO-27001, SOC2)
  • Django
  • Functional programming
  • Java database connectivity (JDBC)
  • Linux
  • Ruby on Rails
  • Object-oriented programming
  • Front-end testing (Selenium, Watir)

Personal

  • Code review
  • Customer success
  • Leadership
  • Mentoring
  • Performance management
  • Hiring

References

References available upon request.

Languages

Community Service

Publications