Summary
Matt Brophy is a software engineer based in Seattle with 11 years of professional experience and 3+ years focused on building cloud-enabled applications using AWS, Azure DevOps, Python, and JavaScript. He currently develops enterprise-grade, reusable libraries and applications at Symetra while coaching and mentoring aspiring engineers through prior roles at Flatiron School. His background blends formal training in advanced web development with hands-on product growth experience—having driven a 20% revenue lift launching products on Amazon—and public-sector planning work that sharpens his regulatory and process-aware approach to software design. Comfortable across front-end and back-end stacks, he emphasizes developer productivity, maintainability, and automated delivery in production systems. Known for bringing positivity and a teaching mindset to teams, he helps translate complex technical problems into pragmatic, user-focused solutions.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Community, Environment, & Planning, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Community, Environment, & Planning at University of Washington
Associate's Degree, Integrated Studies, Associate's Degree, Integrated Studies at Cascadia Community College