Matt Harnett
Senior Backend Engineer at JBT Corporation
Bellingham, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Harnett is a Senior Backend Engineer with 11 years of experience building serverless fintech and infrastructure solutions on AWS, specializing in Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, Python, and Terraform. He has driven architectural decisions and led cross-functional initiatives at Ridgeline to improve microservice deployment lead times and disaster recovery, and now applies that expertise at JBT Corporation. Matt practices aggressive microservice CI/CD using GitHub, CodeBuild, and CodePipeline, and built a user-facing FastAPI service to manage microservice lifecycles. He combines a rare blend of business and technical training from a BUCS program with hands-on DevOps leadership—founding a DevOps Liaison Guild to spread tooling and practices across teams. Comfortable translating high-level requirements into automated infrastructure, he often reduces deployment friction through pragmatic automation and telemetry. Based in Bellingham, WA, he brings a product-minded approach to backend systems that balances reliability, speed, and operational clarity.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Commerce and Computer Science (BUCS), Business and Computer Science, Bachelor of Commerce and Computer Science (BUCS), Business and Computer Science at Sauder School of BusinessBachelor of Commerce and Computer Science (BUCS), Business and Computer Science, Bachelor of Commerce and Computer Science (BUCS), Business and Computer Science at The University of British Columbia
Spanish
Github Skills (4)
aws10
terraform9
terraform-module9
terraform-provider9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
harnettmatt/Todos
May 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:141 pushes, 15 branches, 2 comments in 7 months
harnettmatt/Betting
Jan 2017 - Feb 2017
Contributions:16 pushes, 5 branches in 8 days
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