Summary
Matt Clarson is a seasoned software engineer and Build Master with seven years of recent hands-on experience and over two decades in finance and enterprise IT. He has led architecture and development of scalable, multi-threaded Java testing frameworks and end-to-end trade processing solutions, blending Spring, Guice, SQL, and BDD tooling to automate complex securities workflows. Matt has repeatedly moved between leadership and developer roles—transitioning teams, creating middle-office applications, and driving SOX-compliant support operations—showing a rare mix of people leadership and deep technical craftsmanship. His background spans major financial firms including Broadridge and Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where he improved trade netting, settlement automation, and cross-system tooling such as the Trade Finder. Now based in Las Vegas as Build Master at Las Vegas Sands, he applies enterprise-grade QA and build engineering to operationalize resilient delivery pipelines. He pairs an economics degree with graduate diplomas in IT and software engineering, giving him both business insight and technical rigor.
7 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate Diploma, Software Engineering, Graduate Diploma, Software Engineering at NUI Maynooth, Co Kildare
Graduate Diploma, IT, Graduate Diploma, IT at DCU, Dublin
BA (Hons), Economics, BA (Hons), Economics at UCD, Dublin