Summary
Matt Sumnicht is a technical leader based in Redondo Beach, California, with over a decade of experience building high-performing global software teams and delivering complex solutions. He currently serves as a Technical Consultant for a stealth AI startup, guiding product delivery and technical strategy. In his prior role at Menlo Security, he led engineering teams to deliver cybersecurity applications for Fortune 500 IT departments and government clients, mentored frontend engineers, and expanded the global team from 3 to 14 engineers, promoting four to senior/principal roles. He implemented an automation and test-coverage program that cut customer-reported bugs and regressions by about 55% and drove cross-team code consistency through standardized processes and quarterly cross-timezone collaboration. His technical toolkit spans frontend and backend: AngularJS to modern Angular, React, TypeScript, with Node, Python, and Redis on the backend, and he brings a rare blend of software engineering depth with leadership, underpinned by a Hack Reactor software engineering education and a Bachelor of Science in Biological and Biomedical Sciences.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Arizona
Software Engineering, Software Engineering at Hack Reactor