Matt Harris
Principal Consultant at The Flip Side
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Harris is a Principal Consultant and seasoned technology leader with 17 years of experience building and scaling high‑throughput platforms and cyber-physical systems at Twitter, Uber ATG, and Color. He has led infrastructure that processed 150K+ tweets per second, co-authored four patents in vehicle cybersecurity, and helped put autonomous vehicles on public roads. Today he advises executives, boards, and founders on pragmatic AI strategy, governance, and interim CTO engagements—focusing on what to adopt, how to govern, and what to avoid. His work blends hands-on engineering (including open-source contributions to OAuth tooling) with rigorous risk management and compliance experience from regulated health and safety domains. Active in nonprofit governance, he chairs a 1,500-mile national trail alliance and serves on multiple boards, where he applies the same strategic clarity and accountability he brings to technology programs. Based in Pittsburgh and trained in electronic and computer engineering, he brings a rare combination of production-scale systems experience, security expertise, and practical AI adoption playbooks.
17 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Electronic and Computer Engineering, Master’s Degree Electronic and Computer Engineering at University of York
Github Skills (4)
php10
curl10
api9
apidoc9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
themattharris/tmhOAuth
Aug 2010 - Nov 2012
An OAuth 1.0A library written in PHP
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:79 commits, 2 PRs, 17 comments in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily contributed to a PHP OAuth 1.0A library, as indicated by the repository description. Their work included implementing features such as auto-correcting the time for 401 errors and fixing double-encoding of GET parameters. Further contributions involved refactoring code to move curl options into the config and adding support for the streaming API. In addition, the user added support for proxy servers.
oauthphp
themattharris/hNews-for-WordPress
Feb 2010 - Jul 2010
Contributions:32 commits in 5 months
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