Matt Idell

Oceanside, CA 424-453-4158

Professional Summary

Principal Software Engineer with over a decade of experience designing and building scalable, full-stack solutions in high-availability cloud environments. Proficient in AWS microservice architecture, backend development with C#/JavaScript and SQL/NoSQL databases, and modern frontend frameworks like React. Proven ability to lead projects, mentor engineers, and drive technical excellence across the entire development lifecycle.

Experience

  • Senior Principal Software Engineer Cornerstone
    Mar 2014 - Present Santa Monica (Remote), CA
    • Developed business-critical consumer facing features, contributing to both frontend and backend projects
    • Worked with cross functional teams to develop cloud infrastructure solutions for microservice development
    • Co-led multiple cloud infrastructure migrations of acquisition products, writing design documents and onboarding teams
    • Developed event-driven process to process media files with MediaConvert, EventBridge, SQS and SNS
    • Built Data Warehouse API integrations in Salesforce and Slack with OData
    • Served as a technical advisor on customer calls, providing engineering insights that helped align product capabilities with client expectations.
    • Transitioned CFS product from 11 person offshore team to internal team, including hiring and mentoring team members
  • Senior Software Developer Advisors Asset Management
    Mar 2009 - Mar 2014 San Diego, CA
    • Feature development of web sites for financial advisors providing commerce, marketing services, single sign-on and cobranding capabilities
    • Lead development of next generation site based on Salesforce platform, integrating with existing systems, practicing test driven development
    • Integrated web application within major retail partner site as seamless client experience
    • Development of application services tier utilizing WCF web services
    • Automated build, deploy, and continuous integration processes for .NET and Salesforce projects
    • Introduced client-side development tools for unit testing, CSS compilation, and functional testing
    • Proactively engaged team to adopt Agile development practices
  • Senior Member, Technical Design Solutions Apollo Group
    Oct 2007 - Mar 2009 San Francisco, CA
    • Managed web production team to implement and support lead generation client/partner accounts
    • Directed and implemented transition of over 100 online marketing campaigns from .NET/SQL Server based platform to XSLT/Java/Oracle based platform
  • Web Developer/Production Team Lead Aptimus, Inc.
    Sep 2005 - Oct 2007 San Francisco, CA
    • Developed flexible and reusable application components of online lead generation and marketing system
    • Restructured data tier with separate transaction/reporting tiers to increase peak traffic capacity
    • Designed primary interface for management and reporting of online marketing campaigns
    • Created marketing portal web site utilizing custom content management components
    • Promoted by Aptimus to lead team of two developers, a designer and data technician
  • Junior Software Developer Fixed Income Securities, LP
    Feb 2004 - Sep 2005 San Diego, CA
    • Developed page templates, user controls and development model for reporting and administration tools
    • Created complex financial portfolio reports with Active Reports

Education

University of California, Berkeley, 2002
B.S. Engineering Mathematics and Statistics

Skills

  • AWS
  • CloudFormation
  • Microservices
  • C#
  • SQL
  • NoSql
  • RabbitMQ
  • JavaScript
  • React
  • AngularJS
  • NodeJS
  • HTTP
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • Git
  • Groovy
  • Jenkins
  • OAuth
  • Kong
  • OData
  • Salesforce