Summary
Justin Matthews is a Principal Software Engineer with 13+ years building cloud-native, real-time, and large-scale distributed systems across Microsoft, Skype, and telecom platforms, now running AI models at the edge for Ecolab. He blends deep hands-on expertise in ML deployment, edge orchestration, and real-time communications with people-first leadership that emphasizes autonomy, psychological safety, and clear strategic alignment. At Microsoft he accelerated ML model delivery to production, led Azure ML platform services, and architected agent and edge solutions for Fortune 500 customers. Justin’s work spans low-level C/C++ telecom engines to large-scale Kubernetes and Azure services, giving him rare breadth across embedded, cloud, and AI-inference-at-scale domains. He’s particularly focused on AI agent systems and observability for production ML, and brings a practitioner’s appreciation for organizational design informed by research and proven management philosophies. Based in Cambridge, MA, he pairs technical rigor with a track record of developing teams that ship resilient, secure systems under uncertainty.
13 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering at Boston University