Matt Dragon
Principal Software Engineer at Nava
New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolMatt Dragon is a Principal Software Engineer with 17 years of experience building cloud-native, configurable platforms and leading cross-functional teams from New Jersey. He has led major migrations from Rails monoliths to service-based architectures, designed core architecture proofs of concept, and established code generation, CI/CD, and secure deployment practices. As a hands-on manager he mentors engineers, runs Agile sprints, and coordinates closely with Product, QA, Ops, and Cybersecurity to deliver reliable, user-focused systems. His background includes senior engineering and interim CTO roles at nonprofits where he balanced operational needs with strategic technical direction, and a decade at Johns Hopkins honing scalable web and batch processing systems. Notably, he combines deep systems thinking with a practical knack for onboarding teams to new languages and architectures, turning complex legacy landscapes into maintainable platforms.
17 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (10)
command-line-utility10
pickup9
ember-cli9
javascript8
ember7
react7
nodejs7
typescript6
google-app-engine2
python1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mdragon/CERT-Apps
Jan 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:68 PRs, 86 pushes, 13 branches in 1 year 2 months
mdragon/simpler-grants-gov
Sep 2024 - Oct 2024
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
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