Matt Flower
Senior Staff Engineer at Vertex Web LLC
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Flower is a Senior Staff Engineer and seasoned technology leader based in New York City with nearly three decades of engineering experience and nine years in senior roles. He blends hands-on backend and frontend development—spanning Python, Java, React, PostgreSQL, Celery, Redis and modern infra—with product-minded leadership from founder to VP-level roles. At Squarespace and January he led large platform migrations, microservices frameworks, and high-impact roadmaps while mentoring engineers through management ladders. As founder of Vertex Web he’s directly shipping full-stack products that integrate OpenAI/Anthropic models, own CI/infra, and handle SEO and marketing on a lean budget. He’s known for pragmatic concurrency and troubleshooting skills, a knack for reducing operational load through automation, and an appetite for solving thorny scaling problems. Practical, hands-on, and entrepreneurial, he repeatedly turns complex legacy systems into reliable, scalable services.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science & Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science & Engineering at University of WashingtonComputer Science, Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara
Github Skills (5)
atom-editor10
lua5
neovim4
nvim3
markdown3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
MattFlower/organized
Aug 2016 - Oct 2017
Outlining, scheduling, and todos inside of the Atom Editor
Contributions:88 commits in 1 year 2 months
atom-editor
MattFlowerSQSP/rewrite
Aug 2025 - Aug 2025
Automated mass refactoring of source code.
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
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