University of Virginia

Crash Course Director at Forge

Matt specializes in delivering advanced Cloud, DevOps, and ML solutions to clients. Major accomplishments include:
- Implementing a network migration solution that allowed 100+ AWS accounts supporting over $10 million of operations a day to adopt on-prem connectivity via Transit Gateway Hub
- Architecting GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines for Docker, .NET Framework, and C++ using Bash, PowerShell, and TypeScript
- Creating a "golden container" service that provided a self updating registry of 20+ security approved base Docker images to compliment the client's efforts to secure the software supply chain
- Implementing Amazon SageMaker machine learning models that predict prescription errors for a large Pennsylvania hospital system with millions of annual patients.

Pariveda

Cloud Engineer – Consultant

Provided analytical and consulting services to a government-serving commercial client, spearheading many projects that helped the client understand cost drivers, find potential future opportunities, and maximize its competitive edge.

MW JONES & COMPANY INC

Summer Business Analyst

- Planned and organizes social and professional events at the most student-centric school in the world in order to build a community of passionate professionals
- Led a team of eight to provide value to a community of thousands

Forge

Community Director

- Built Forge's Crash Course program from the ground up, which includes recruiting instructors, organizing information on the backend, and marketing their courses
- Crash Courses aimed to provide technical workshops to the community to help people get their foot in the door with various fields and softwares

Crash Course Manager

- Worked with APIs of Common House's technology stack to create a unified data backend through NodeJS
- Worked with web hooks to connect software stacks
- Cleaned and analyzed data through Salesforce and R to help drive customer analytics
- Built out various programs like the referral program and corporate membership program

Common House

IT Tech Support

For three semesters, I assisted professors in 40-50 people classes (Multivariable Calculus, Linear Algebra, Differential Equations). I was not just a typical grader and tutor but a leader and a mentor for many by using learned communication techniques.

Applied Mathematics Teaching Assistant

Founded a marketing company, Virra Marketing, that served local musicians, helping talented individuals and groups succeed in the industry.

Launch: High School Entrepreneurship Program

Fellow

Catapult is a business incubator for high school entrepreneurs that aims to launch successful businesses. Matt is currently working on launching his company, Lace-Up, at Catapult.

Catapult Ideas

• Lace-Up was an online platform that allows the user to buy shoes at the best price on the market. 

• Did not succeed but learned a lot and met many cool people along the way.

Matt Thompson