Matt Black
Senior Engineering Manager at Forward Financing
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolMatt Black is a senior engineering manager in Boston with 13+ years of experience turning product vision into measurable business impact through hands-on technical leadership. He has scaled engineering orgs dramatically (275% growth), led monolith-to-microservices transformations that doubled stability and halved time-to-market, and implemented AI/ML-driven pricing strategies that cut manual work and boosted revenue. Known as a player/coach, he builds high-retention teams by pairing autonomy and clear career ladders with rigorous coaching and mentorship. He combines deep technical chops in Go, TypeScript, event-driven systems, and data engineering with a knack for pragmatic tooling—authoring bespoke testing, migration, and resource-allocation systems that materially improved delivery and efficiency. Unusually for a manager, he remains a frequent contributor to architecture and code, enabling rapid technical decisions and low attrition. He holds a Master’s in Computer Science and a track record of translating complex technical projects into clear commercial outcomes.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Business Administration and Management, General, Business Administration and Management, General at NorthWest Arkansas Community CollegeBachelor of Science, Business Management, Bachelor of Science, Business Management at University of PhoenixMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
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Github Skills (10)
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
MJBlack23/DosToUnixInterpreter
Jan 2019 - Nov 2019
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
MJBlack23/React-Todo
Jun 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:25 pushes, 1 branch in 12 days
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