Matthew Long

Senior Software Engineer · Full-Stack Developer · Cloud Architect

20+ years building mission-critical systems for Fortune 500 companies

20+ Years Experience
$300M Exit at Evident.io
100+ Projects Delivered
2,300+ Commits 2024-25

Key Achievements

$300M
Acquisition Exit
Core contributor at Evident.io, acquired by Palo Alto Networks
$70K
Annual Cost Savings
Optimized AWS infrastructure reducing operational costs 35%
100+
Engagements
High-value solutions across Finance, Healthcare, Energy, and Government
Patent
Holder
Invented a secure distributed messaging architecture
DARPA
Recognition
Distinguished technology innovator and leadership alliance member
68
Active Repositories
2,300+ commits across diverse projects in 2024-2025

Featured Engagements

Selected projects demonstrating full-stack, cloud, and AI expertise

Zoro / Grainger
E-commerce Microservices
2024 - 2025

Built real-time shipment tracking and returns processing microservices handling millions of daily transactions. Reduced query latency 60%, eliminated 95% of webhook failures, and scaled APIs to 10K req/s.

Node.js Java/Spring GCP Terraform Kafka Datadog
TSI
Cloud Migration
2024 - 2025

Migrated legacy on-premise infrastructure to AWS. Achieved 99.95% uptime, improved performance 40%, accelerated feature delivery 50%, and reduced infrastructure costs 25%.

AWS EKS Terraform React Laravel Kubernetes Helm
Pop Secret
Voice AI Campaign
2025

Deployed Twilio IVR system for national marketing campaign in 10 days. Handled 50K+ calls without incidents with <200ms response times during viral traffic spikes.

Node.js Twilio AWS S3 PostgreSQL Serverless
Cogability
Document Intelligence
2023 - 2024

Built AI-powered document automation for municipal governments. Reduced ticket processing time 85%, achieved 99.5% classification accuracy, processed 1.2M+ documents.

React Python AWS Lambda Textract Vision LLMs
Shell
Energy Analytics
2022 - 2023

Developed ensemble ML models reducing forecasting errors 30% and saving $600K+ annually. Scaled to 10M+ daily events with real-time Kafka streaming on multi-cloud infrastructure.

Python FastAPI TensorFlow Kafka AWS/GCP ArgoCD
PredictiveHR
Workforce Analytics SaaS
2021 - 2023

Built ML-powered analytics platform improving attrition prediction accuracy from 40% to 85%. Reduced forecasting time 95% with automated data pipelines.

React TypeScript Python AWS CDK Redshift SageMaker
BetaCom
5G Network Monitoring
2020 - 2021

Built real-time monitoring dashboard reducing incident detection from 8 minutes to 20 seconds. Scaled to 50M+ daily events with 99.95% delivery guarantee.

React FastAPI Kafka PostgreSQL WebSockets D3.js
Fidelity Labs
RegTech Platform
2020 - 2023

Architected SOC2-compliant multi-cloud platform achieving 99.995% uptime. Improved compliance accuracy 45% using BERT-based NLP for regulatory document classification.

React Spring Boot BERT/NLP AWS GCP Kafka
Evident.io
Cloud Security Platform
2016 - 2018

Core engineer contributing to $300M Palo Alto Networks acquisition. Reduced AWS costs $70K/yr, scaled to 1M+ events/day, awarded "Bug Fix of the Year 2017."

Ruby Python Terraform Docker ECS Elasticsearch

Technical Skills

Full-stack capabilities across the modern engineering stack

Languages

Python JavaScript TypeScript Java Go Scala Ruby

Frameworks

React Node.js Next.js Spring Boot FastAPI Django Express

Cloud & DevOps

AWS GCP Azure Kubernetes Docker Terraform ArgoCD GitHub Actions

Data & AI

PostgreSQL Redis Kafka TensorFlow PyTorch Spark BigQuery Snowflake

Education

PhD Mathematics

Aion University

M.S. & B.S. Computer Science

University of Colorado

Certifications

Red Hat Certified, Microsoft Certified Professional

Sectors Served

Financial Services Energy & Utilities Technology Government Retail Healthcare

Notable Clients

Fidelity · Shell · Apple · Target · DARPA · Grainger · Zebra · Blue Cross Blue Shield · Pizza Hut · Royal Caribbean · Cabela's · USDA

Let's build something together.

I'm always interested in hearing about new opportunities and challenging engineering problems. See also my leadership profile for executive and strategic engagements.