Matt Burgess
Director Of Software Engineering at Malwarebytes
Alpharetta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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SeniorMatt Burgess is a pragmatic engineering leader with 18 years of hands-on software and management experience who today directs a 29-person, multi-disciplinary engineering organization at Malwarebytes. He combines strategic planning and budget stewardship with deep technical chops across C#.NET, Node.js, React and cloud-native deployments, having led large migrations from fragmented stacks to a unified Digital Experience Platform. Known for running high-performing teams—achieving >90% goal completion and industry-leading retention—he emphasizes coaching, OKR-driven delivery, and change management to raise velocity and quality. Matt has a track record of building low-turnover, globally distributed teams, establishing repeatable onboarding and release processes, and integrating agency partnerships to scale capacity. He also brings a product-minded perspective from earlier full-stack roles and even authored two books, revealing a creative side that informs his focus on user experience and communication.
8 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
German, English
Github Skills (24)
in-progress9
solidity8
trading8
ethereum7
blockchain7
smart-contracts7
cli6
react6
javascript6
analyzer6
nodejs5
typescript5
contract5
testing5
static-analysis5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
smallbatch-apps/critter-gitter
Jul 2020 - Aug 2022
Svelte app for finding Animal Crossing creatures currently available
Contributions:5 PRs, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
findingsveltecrossingsvelte-appcreatures
civicledger/waterledger-contracts
Dec 2019 - Jun 2022
Ethereum Smart Contracts for WaterLedger trading platform
Contributions:2 reviews, 59 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years 5 months
ethereumblockchaintradingsoliditysmart-contracts
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