Matt Kindy

Senior Staff Software Engineer

Workweek

Nov 2025 - Current (9 months)

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Founder

Jul 2023 - Current (3 years 1 month)

Distributed system analysis platform using static analysis to automatically map inter-service dependencies across polyglot codebases to prevent integration bugs • Event-driven, serverless data pipeline to process million-line codebases across monorepos and multi-repo architectures. • Analysis augmented with AI code intelligence system to trace cross-service invocations, implicit API contracts, and dependency chains in developer workflows • Scaled at peak to $10,000 ARR in direct sales

Staff Software Engineer

Reibus Logistics

Oct 2021 - Sep 2023 (2 years)

- Hired to shape engineering process in the organization. Served as technical lead for marketplace. Emphasis on increasing team velocity and quality simultaneously by introducing scalable org practices like unit / UI / integration testing, a migration of our 100k lines of Javascript to Typescript, API docs+contracts, and distributed tracing and error monitoring. - Scope as large as 16 engineers over 3 teams as a mentor and technical leader. - Successfully executed major performance initiatives including migration of code and tooling from CJS to ESM to reduce AWS Lambda cold start impacts on latency by over 50% (tree-shaking during bundling), and development of code-splitting and CDN caching process for our microfrontends, which dramatically

Software Architect

Disco

Jun 2021 - Oct 2021 (5 months)

Involved in Platform -- specifically working on document subsystem, domain architecture to support data processing and application events at scale. Impact: • Stood up AWS infrastructure for Kafka, Schema Registry, and other components for event bus to handle streaming updates for domain objects • Developed and shipped v1 Kotlin and Python Kafka domain field broker event bus client libraries for other teams to produce/consume domain object events with virtually no additional configuration • Implemented ECS services for event filter and fanout, including poison pill protection • Incorporated additional metrics for monitoring and observability, which brought the team closer to useful on-call alerting Technologies: • Kotlin, Python, gRPC, Kafka

Senior Software and Machine Learning Engineer

Praetorian

Apr 2018 - May 2021 (3 years 2 months)

• Developed initial proof-of-concept for deep learning model applied for automated vulnerability detection in application source code using Keras/tensorflow. • Responsible for developing data collection or generation opportunities and efficient labeling techniques (typically using Python or Scala). Includes identifying vulnerable source applications in GitHub, integrating ANTLR parsers and constructing customised language grammars, and engineering extraction embedding techniques over proprietary ASTs as part of a highly parallel Google App Engine microservice workflow. • Engineered, deployed, and supported the initial release of the Praetorian Diana continuous security platform (Java Spring backend, React front end) including source control

Senior Security Engineer

Praetorian

Jan 2018 - Mar 2018 (3 months)

Security Engineer

Praetorian

Sep 2017 - Dec 2017 (4 months)

• Performed application security reviews including penetration testing and benchmarking to the OWASP ASVS standard both as part of small teams and independently. This included reviews for Ruby web applications for constructing and performing internal phishing campaigns for training, Python servers for Java mobile applications for driver behaviour tracking, PHP web applications for fleet tracking and management, a Python application for datastore processing as a service, and a series of Java and Scala micro services used by a major travel booking brand. • Spearheaded the bid proposal for the Rootstock (RSK) Bitcoin smart contract platform security review including elements of traditional application review along with network and incentive an

Cofounder | Blockchain Engineer

Topl

Jan 2017 - Aug 2017 (8 months)

• Designed and developed a Scala crypto-asset client for the Topl blockchain that implements flexible financial instruments for capital lending arrangements enforced on the blockchain as sandboxed native Scala smart contract templates. The client was developed on top of IOHK's Scorex 2 framework. • Led team employing Agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban) and TDD (ScalaTest/Mocha.js) focusing on continuous delivery with JIRA, Travis CI, and Git in our workflow. • Designed and implemented reputation systems for Topl producers and hubs to accurately reflect and mitigate investor and network risk. Constructed an adaptation of a machine learning algorithm (beta distribution) to incorporate behavioral information to improve evaluation. • Anticipated

Cofounder | UI/UX Developer & Smart Contract Engineer

Topl

Nov 2015 - Jan 2017 (1 year 3 months)

• Consulted on and developed upgradeable Solidity smart contracts on an Ethereum private chain powering a loyalty and payments platform, with over 1000 blockchain transactions and several thousand dollars of purchase and loyalty value tracked over the first six months. • Used Ionic / AngularJS framework to design and develop a merchant management portal and retail loyalty and payments hybrid mobile apps, which resulted in over 600 customer app installs. • Connected front-end interfaces to an AWS-hosted NodeJS REST API that integrated with the private chain using the Truffle framework, allowing constant uptime without breaking updates using API versioning. • Integrated analytics tracking into the hybrid mobile app that was used to guide scru

COMP 215 (Introduction to Programming Design) Teaching Assistant

Rice University

Sep 2015 - Jan 2016 (5 months)

Course focused on functional programming using Java 8 in a variety of contexts. • Graded student programming assignments and exams on the basis of functionality, coding style, sufficient test functions written, and overall structure and design. • Helped design parts of the final programming set, including developing Java classes to be given to students as basic pieces upon which the rest of desired functionality was to be built. • Provided assistance to professors and students during programming lab sessions. Verified student solutions were properly implemented and resolved IDE and/or VCS issues when they arose. • Held regular office hours for at least 3 hours per week, clarifying programming assignments, assisting student understanding of

Research Assistant and Developer

Rice University

Jan 2014 - May 2016 (2 years 5 months)

• Improve functionality and security in the Java-based reference implementation of the STAR-Vote project through implementation of new cryptographic protocols, inter-process separation, and development of improved voting security features. • Facilitate usability experimentation and UI design iteration through development of both cross-platform end-user applications (Dart/Angular Chrome apps) and experimentally-focused versions of user interfaces. • Develop improved features and data flow for web-based verification in Play Framework through implementation of authentication and authorisation controls, database handling using Ebean ORM, and homomorphic tallying procedures via a Java serialisation-over-network protocol.

Research Assistant, Principal Investigator

Rice University

Mar 2012 - Jan 2014 (1 year 11 months)

Synthesised growths and measured the physical properties of poly-crystalline and single-crystal itinerant ferromagnets. Learned solid-state physics principles and wrote a journal article (submitted) on the 1-2-20 structure family of intermetallics.

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